rhetoric Flashcards
assonance
the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.
Similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants:
consonance
The repetition of consonants in words stressed in the same place (but whose vowels differ). Also,
a kind of inverted alliteration, in which final consonants, rather than initial or medial ones, repeat in nearby word
MiKe liKes his new biKe.
Internal Rhyme
rhyming within the lines
end rhyme
rhyming on ends of different lines
Slant Rhyme:
when a close, but imperfect rhyme occurs, such as the words glorious and nefarious
Eye Rhyme:
when the word is spelled similarly enough to look like rhyme, but the pronunciation
is different
Enjambment
though runs from one line to the other
Caesura
pause in the middle with punctuation
