Unit 2 Flashcards
Meter
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Parallelism
Similarity in structure of two or more phrases, clauses, or sentences
Alliteration
The routine of initial consonant sounds
Iambic pentameter
Most commonly used meter in poetry
Consonance
The repot ion of a consonant sound within the word
Assonance
The religion of similar vowel sounds in a word
Rhetoric
The art of public speaking
Rhetorical Question
A question asked for effect
Repitition
The art of creating patterns by repeating words, phrases, sounds, etc
Enjambment
a poetic device in which a point is expressed through several lines
Eye rhyme
Word pairs that look like they should rhyme but don’t
Internal rhyme
Rhyme that happens in a single line of poetry
Slant rhyme
Rhyme between two words that are slightly dissimilar
