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Prosody Flashcards

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The recurrence of stress & emphasis @ irregular intervals, affording a pleasurable rise & fall. Never falls in a regular pattern.

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Prose Rhythm

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7 line stanza ( a form of - is Rhyme Royal).

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Septet

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A system for describing conventional rhythms by dividing lines into feet, indicating the locations of accents, & counting the syllables. The meter, once the -ing has been performed, is named according to the # of feet in a line ( monometer, dimeter, etc.). Main feet: iamb (U/), trochee (/U), anapest (UU/), dactyl (/UU), spondee (//), phyric (UU).

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Scansion

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In prosody- the emphasis given to a syllable in articulation. In versification- usually implies contrast, accented & unaccented syllables.

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Accent

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Incompleteness of the last foot of a line. Truncation by omission of 1 or 2 final syllables. The opposite of anacrusis.

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Catalexis

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6
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A slanting or upright line used in prosody to mark off feet, as in the following:
The sun | is warm | the sky | is clear.
The waves | are dan | cing fast | & bright.

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Virgule

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7
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UU- unstressed, unstressed.

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Phyrrhic

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Extra metrical unstressed syllable added to the end of a line of iambic ( U/+U) or anapestic (UU/+U) rhythm.

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Feminine Ending

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9
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The unit of rhythm in a verse.

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Foot

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10
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Line of verse that ends on a stressed syllable as does any regular iambic line.

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Masculine Ending

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Recurrence in poetry of a rhythmic pattern.

Ex: monometer (1), dimeter (2), etc.

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Meter

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“Variable form”- applied to rare verse forms that pressures rhythm, meter, & stanza, but varies rhyme scheme from stanza to stanza.
Ex: W.H. Austen’s “Leap Before You Look” rhymes-abab bbaa baba abba aabb baba-, in effect turning itself inside out.

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Poikilomorphism

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13
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A musical term for the effect produced by a temporary displacing or shifting of the regular beat.

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Syncopation

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14
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U/- unstressed, stressed.

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Iamb

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A couplet- any 2 consecutive lines of similar form. An epigram or maxim completely expressed in couplet form.

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Distich

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16
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//- stressed, stressed.
Ex: football
/ /

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Spondee

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17
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The placement of a pause or caesura in the syllabilic middle of a line of verse. In line w/ an even # of feet & of syllables, a -ing caesura has the effect of stability, Asian Thomas Harely’s “& consummation comes, & jarster homispheres.”

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Balance

18
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A cutting short of words through the omission of a letter or a syllable. Usually confined to omission of vowels inside a word.
Ex: Ev’ry for every is - often used in verse where a desired meter is sought.

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Syncope

19
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The name of the symbol (U) used to indicate a short syllable in scansion & an unstressed syllable.

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Breve

20
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A poetic foot in which the 1st syllable is accented, as in a trochee (/U) or dactyl (/UU).

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Falling Rhythm

21
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A meterical system employed by poets before 1100. Consists of = #s of accented syllables per line & a varying # of unaccented syllables. - - - line had 2 hemistich ( half lines ) having 2 accented syllables each & separated by a caesura & contain alliteration. In modern times, W.H. Auden used this system in his long poem The Age of Anxiety.
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Old English Versification

22
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Opposite of anapest, (/UU)- stressed, unstressed, unstressed.
Ex: merrily
/ U U

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Dactyl

23
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UU/- unstressed, unstressed, stressed.

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Anapest

24
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Metrically complete. Applied to lines that carry out the basic metrical & rhythmic pattern of a poem.

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Acatalectic

25
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Lacking a syllable in the middle & @ the end. This happens commonly in the 3rd & 6th feet of the 2nd line of the elegiac couplet in classical languages.

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Dicatalectic

26
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Stress that falls on a syllable. It does NOT refer to the stressed syllable, but the stress itself (/).

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Ictus

27
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Group of 8 lines of verse.

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Octet

28
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Stanza appearing @ the close of certain kinds of stanzas. @ times it serves as a summary or conclusion. Sometimes functions as a “ sending “ or “ dispatching “ poem ( talking w/ common diplomatic meaning of - as “ one who is sent.”

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Envoy (envoi)

29
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A 3-line stanza which rhymes -Ana bcb cdc ded- & so forth ( an interlocking rhyme scheme). A set of such stanzas can close w/ some variation such as a couplet to close the loose ends of the rhymes. Usually written in iambic pentameter (U/). It is a form popular w/ W.H. Auden.

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Terza Rima

30
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A stanza of 8 iambic pentameter lines rhyming -abab abcc-. Boccaccio is credited w/ originating it. Some English poets who used it are Wyatt, Spenser, Mitton, Keats, Byron, Longfellow, Browning & Yeats.

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Ottava Rima

31
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A stanza of 5 lines.

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Quintain (quintet)

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The recurrence of certain sounds & kinds of sounds. In poetry, 3 different elements may function in a pattern of regular occurrence: quantity, accent, & # of syllables. In English poetry, the -ic pattern is most often established by a combination of accent & # of syllables. - can be rising as in iamb & anapest or falling as in trochee & dactyl.

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Rhythm

33
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Foot w/ 3 syllables ( //U). Opposite of anapest.

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Anti Bacchius

34
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The study of the patterns of rhythm in poetry.

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Metrics

35
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Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs.

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Heroic Couplet

36
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A break or pause in a line verse. In Classical literature, it divided a foot between 2 words, usually near the middle of the line.
Ex: “ To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell:
Had we but world enough, || & time
This coyness lady, || were no crime.
We would sit down, || & think which way.
To walk || & pass our long lores day.
If the - comes after an unstressed syllable l, it is called feminine -.

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Caesura (cesura)

37
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A pause or break between 2 vowel sounds not separated by a consonant. Opposite of elision. Occurs only in a break between 2 words when the final vowel of the 1st & the initial vowel of the 2nd are each sounded. In logic - signifies the omission of 1 of the logical steps in a process of reasoning.
Ex: Montana “pause” Atlanta.

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Hiatus

38
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A stanza widely used for hymns, consisting of 4 lines rhyming either
-abab- or -abcb- & usually having the 1st, 2nd, & 4th lines in iambic trimeter & the 3rd in iambic tetrameter.
Ex: The hymn “Blessed Be the Tis That Binds” is in - -. Also, Thomas Hardy used it in “I Look into My Glass” & “The Man He Killed” & Emily Dickinson used it in such poems as “The Bustle in a House” & “There’s a Certain Slant of Light”.

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Short Measure

39
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/U- stressed, unstressed.

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Trochee

40
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In metrics, the omission of a syllable or syllables @ the beginning or ending of a line.

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Truncation

41
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Used in prosody for rhyming syllables that bear significantly different levels of accent, as in the rhyme of “appear” & “reindeer” in Clement Morre’s “A Visit From Saint Nicholas.”

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Anisobaric

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