Prosody (Beat/Rhythm) Flashcards
Rhyme Scheme
Pattern of line-endings
A
B
A
B
Meter
Pattern of measured sound units
U/ U/ U/
Foot
A unit of 2 unstressed syllables
spaghet - ti
Stressed syllable and
Unstressed syllable
/
U
Iamb
Unstressed and Stressed
U/
Trochee
Stressed and Unstressed
/U
Pyrrhic
2 Unstressed
UU
Spondee
2 Stressed
//
Caesura
A pause in a line (,)
End-Stopped line
Line ended with some form of punctuation (.)
Enjambment
No punctuation at the end of a line
Assonance
Rhyming vowels sound close to one another
Bike, hike, like
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds close to one another
Pitter patter
Dissonance
Lack of harmony in the sounds
Euphony
Sweet-sounding
Cacophony
Harsh discordance of sounds
Juxtaposition
Side-side contrast
Oxymoron
Living dead or
Cruel to be kind
Paradox
Self contradictory statement
I must be cruel only to be kind
Pun
Word play
Onomatopoeia
Sizzle, boom!