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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 sound devices | as with music, they transmit ideas and emotions not mere decoration; chosen to create emotion |
| foot | basic measure of rhythm |
| composed of | one accented syllable and one or more unaccented |
| meter | regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| gives a line of poetry | rhythm |
| stanza | a group of lines forming a unit of poetry |
| example:quatrain | a four-lined stanza |
| rhythm | pattern created by arranged stressed and unstressed syllables |
| exact rhyme | a repetition of vowels and all succeeding consonant sounds |
| approximate rhyme | final sounds are similar, not exact |
| aka | slat rhyme ex- stone and one |
| end rhyme | rhyme occurs at the end of lines |
| internal rhyme | rhyme occurs within the lines |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern or sequence in which rhyme occurs |
| represented by | lower case letters by each sound |
| ex: a Shakespeare sonnet | ababcdcdefefgg |
| onomatopoeia | a word that imitates or suggest the sound it describes |
| example | whisper |
| word invention | poets often create words to achieve startling effects |
| but they must provide | clues to the meaning |
| example: | "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll 'Twas brillig |
| repetition | the repeating of sounds , letters, words or lines to help give poetry meaning, form and sound |
| parallelism | repetition of phrases or sentences so repeated parts are alike in structure or meaning |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds (silken sad) |
| consonance | repetition of internal consonant sounds (uncertain rustling) |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds (molten, golden notes) |
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