Unit 2 terms Flashcards
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
A rhetorical device that uses syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their Contrasting meanings
Antithesis
The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines of poetry or grammatical units
Anaphora
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words
Assonance
A pause in the middle of a line of poetry usually indicated by a mark of punctuation.
Caesura
The repetition of terminal consonant sounds
Consonance
A poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next with no punctuation at the end of the first verse line
Enjambment
Word pairs that are spelled alike but pronounced differently
Eye rhyme
Poetry with no set meter or rhyme
Free verse
Rhyme that occurs between words within a single line of poetry
Internal rhyme
Agreement of sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward with a difference in the immediately preceding consonant sounds
Perfect rhyme
A rhyme between two words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds
Slant rhyme
Rhyme that occurs at the ends of corresponding lines of poetry
End rhyme
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Meter
The use of words that sound like what they mean
Onomatopoeia
The specific combination of two or three stressed and unstressed syllables that predominately repeats throughout the poems lines
Poetic feet
The art of public speaking
Rhetoric
A questions asked not to receive information but to achieve an effect
Rhetorical question
Two or more words having identical sounds in the last stressed vowel and all of the sounds following that vowel
Rhyme
The process of identifying the two major features of meter in a particular poem
Scansion
Lines of poetry that end with a natural pause indicated by punctuation
End stopped lines
A line ending in which the final syllable is unstressed
Feminine ending
A line ending in which the final syllable is stressed
Masculine ending
