Quizlet poetry vocab h - m

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  1. dramatic irony: a device by which the author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker
  2. heard rhythm: the actual rhythm of a metrical poem as we hear it when it is read naturally
  3. heptameter: a metrical line containing seven feet
  4. hexameter: a metrical line containing six feet
  5. hyperbole: a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth
  6. iamb: a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable
  7. iambic meter: a meter in which the majority of feet are iambs
  8. imagery: the representation through language of sense experience
  9. internal rhyme: a rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occur within the line
  10. irony: a situation involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy
  11. italian sonnet: a sonnet consisting of an octave riming abbbaabbba
  12. limerick: a fixed form consisting of five lines of anapestic meter, riming aabba
  13. masculine rime: a rime in which the pepeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved
  14. metaphor: a figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike
  15. meter: regularized rhythm; an arrangement of language in whcih the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time
  16. metonymy: a figure of speech in which some significant aspect is used to represent the whole experience (The White House has decided...)
  17. monometer: a metrical line containing one foot
  18. monosyllable foot: a foot consisting of a single accented syllable
  19. situational irony: a situation in which there is an incongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem apporpriate
  20. verbal irony: a figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said