Test 4 Flashcards
Verbal Irony
Verbalizing Irony
Euphony
The choice and arrangement of words for melodious sounds.
Cacophony
Unpleasant harsh sounds created by using certain words. Often requires reforming of the mouth to form the sound.
Balance
Grammatical Parallelism
Antithesis
Grammatical parallelism that contrasts ideas
Chiasmus
Inverted parallelism in which the elements of the first half of a construction appear in reverse order in the second half.
Scansion
Analyzing the line of poetry for meter.
Meter
The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry.
Iambic Meter
A foot consisting of two syllables, the second of which is accented.
Trochaic Meter
Opposite of iambic. The first syllable is accented.
Anapestic
A three syllable foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable.
Dactylic Meter
Opposite of anapestic. accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables.
Foot Type by Number of Sets
1-monometer 2-dimeter 3-trimeter 4-tetrameter 5-pentameter 6- hexameter 7-heptameter
Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they mean.
Caesura
Required pause in a line of poetry
End Stopped Lines
Lines that end with natural pause indicated by punctuation.
