Sound Devices/Meter/Conventions in Dramatic Speech
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avento17 on September 19, 2012
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for language arts quiz. btw, just realized hayes made one exactly like this, so sorry!! i hope this is helpful anyways! (email me if i made any mistakes or want me to add something to it!)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Rime | -Repetition of vowel/consonant combo -Repeated at the end of two or more words |
| End Rime | Repetition of same rime at the end of two or more poetry lines |
| Couplet | Occurrence of same end rime after two adjacent poetry lines |
| Rime scheme | -Regular pattern of end rimes -Carried out in every stanza consistently -Hint: A B A B |
| Stanza | -Group of lines in poetry that form a unified thought -Hint: A A A A A A |
| Free verse | Poem without rime scheme |
| Blank verse | Free verse in iambic pentameter |
| Meter | Natural rhythm of poem |
| Pentameter | Five metrical feet in a line of poetry |
| Iamb | Metrical foot that consists of 1 unstressed syllable followed by a stressed |
| / | Unstressed symbol |
| - | Stressed symbol |
| Scan | To mark stressed/unstressed pattern to find a line's meter |
| Internal Rime | -Repetition of same rime at the end of two or more words -One not at the end of rime |
| Denotation | Dictionary definition of a word |
| Connotation | Emotional meaning of a word |
| Synonym | Words that have the same denotation btu a different connotation |
| Author's Diction | An author's choice of words |
| Epilogue | Concluding statement made by an actor to the audience |
| Prologue | Introductory statement made by an actor to the audience in order to communicate important info that the audience needs to know |
| Soliloquy | -Statement made by an actor who is alone on the stage -As if the audience could overhear the actor's thoughts |
| Monologue | Fairly long statement made by an actor who is speaking to one or more listeners |
| Aside | Statement made by an actor in the presence of other characters on stage to the audience in order to communicate important info that the audience needs to know |
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