Vocab 2 Flashcards
The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles
Integrity
Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Meter
Meter with 5 iambs in each line of a poem
Iambic pentameter
Most obvious form of sound repetition in poetry
Rhyme
Rhyme in which syllables are exactly alike
Perfect rhyme
Rhyme that pairs words that are similar but slightly mismatched in sound
Slant rhyme
Rhyme that combines words that look alike but don’t sound alike
Eye rhyme
Rhyme that falls at the end of a line
End rhyme
Rhyme occurring within a single line of poetry
Internal rhyme
When a natural pause comes at the end of the line
End-stopped
When the reader must run past the end to find the natural pause
Enjambment
A break found within a line of poetry
Caesura
Final syllable of a line is unstressed
Feminine ending
Final syllable of a line is stressed
Masculine ending
An expression that is unique to itself
Idiom
Swiftly and easily running
Scudding
Banged
Spanged
Unemotional
Phlegmatic
A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events.
Anticlimax
That which restrains
Manacle
Aggressiveness
Militancy
Inescapably
Inextricably
A doctrine by which a state opposes a federal law believed to encroach on its sovereignty
Interposition
A state’s refusing to enforce a federal law
Nullification
The art of public speaking
Rhetoric
Two parallel phrases, clauses, or sentences in which the second reverses the elements of the first, inverting the parallel structure.
Chiasmus
A rhetorical device that uses syntactical parallelism in 2 adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meanings.
Antithesis
