Poetic Mehcanics Flashcards
1
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Alliteration
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Connects words that have the same initial consonants (tongue twisters)
2
Q
Assonance
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The echoing of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of words with differing consonants
3
Q
Onomatopoeia
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a figure of speech (a scheme) in which a word ‘imitates’ a sound, or in which the sound of a word seems to reflect its meaning
4
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Closed couplets
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the lines are end stopped
Sol through white curtains shot a timorous ray,
And op’d those eyes that must eclipse the day.
5
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Open couplets
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makes use of continuous enjambment
That’s my last duchess pating on the wall,
Looking as though she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now:
