Unit 2 Terms Flashcards
Antithesis
A rhetorical device that uses syntactical parrallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meaning
Alliteration
The repition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds (clasps, crag, crooked)
Anaphora
The repition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines of poetry or grammarical units
Assonance
The repitition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words (clasps, crag, hands)
Caesura
A pause in the middle of the line of poetry usually indicated by a mark of punctuation
Chiasmus
Two parallel phrases, clauses or sentences in which the second reverses the elements of the first, inverting the parallel structure
Consonance
The repetition of terminal consonant sounds and more rarely of internal consonants that create extra emphasis on the word involved (clasps,hands)
Enjambment
A poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into and into the next with no punctuation at the end of the first line
Eye rhyme
Word pairs that are spelled alike but pronounced differently
Free verse
Poetry with no set meter or rhyme
Internal rhyme
Rhyme that occurs between words within a single line of poetry
Perfect rhyme
Agreement of sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward with a difference in the immediately proceeding consonant sounds
Slant rhyme
A line between two words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds (star and door)
End rhyme
Rhyme that occurs at the ends of corresponding lines of poetry
Meter
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
