Terms And Devices Flashcards
Foot
A measuring unit of poetry, which is made up of a stressed and a least one unstressed syllable.
Stressed ( vertical line (‘))
Unstressed (x)
Combination of feet creates a meter in poetry
Iamb foot
A foot containing a short Unstressed followed by a long stressed syllable (x, ‘) in a single line. delay
An iambic pentameter are five iamb feet in a single line
An iambic hexameter are six( alexandrine)
Trochee
Stressed and unstressed (‘,x)
Consisted of one long stress and one short one
( running)
Pyrrhus
2 unaccented short syllables
Spondee
2 stressed syllables (‘’)
2 long stressed syllables
(Pouring)
Anapaest
3 syllables: 2 syllables are short and unstressed followed a long and stressed one
XX’
(Strike back)
Dactyl
Consists of three syllables with the first is stressed and the last two are unstressed
’ x x
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Alliteration
Repetition of initial consonants in consecutive words in a word close together
Expository
Writing with the primary purpose of informing,clarifying, or explaining
Satire
Literary form that ridicules human vices
Mode
A literary method or style of writing.
E.g. Realism,romanticism, satire, expository
Motif
A object, concept or structure repeated in a literary work, thereby giving it symbolic significance in the story
Irony
Discrepancy between what is said or done and what is meant
Prose
The most common form of written language following natural speech patterns and grammatical structure.
Unmetered unrhymed language