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Sound and Syntax
Poetry Terms
| One foot per line of poetry | Monometer |
| Two feet per line of poetry | Dimeter |
| Three feet per line of poetry | Trimeter |
| Four feet per line of poetry | Tetrameter |
| Five feet per line of poetry | Pentameter |
| Omission of conjunctions | Asyndeton |
| The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. Can be in many parts of the words not just the end. | Assonance |
| The use of MANY conjunctions in close succession. | Polysyndeton |
| words that imitates or mimicks the sounds they represent | Onomatopoeia |
| Two or more words with the same beginning sound: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers | Alliteration |
| “Be near me when my light is low, When the BLOOD CREEPS and the NERVES PRICK.” | This represents Spondee because “blood creeps” and “nerves prick” are both stressed syllables right next to each other, throwing off the original trochaic foot. |
| Examples if this term include rhymes of "strong and string" and "dress and boss" | This term is consonance due to the similar consonant sounds at the ends of the words |
| A pleasing sound; words that fit together to make sounds that are pleasing to the ear. | Euphony |
| What type of poetry has a rhythm but does not rhyme? | Blank Verse |
| A metric foot consisting of two unstressed syllables. | Pyrrhic |
| The use of words that combine sharp, harsh, hissing, or unmelodious sounds. | Cacophony |
| Giving two or more parts of a sentence a similar form to give it a pattern. | Parallelism |
| The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of consecutive clauses | Anaphora |
| When the second part of a sentence is balanced against the first by a reversal of structure | Chiasmus |
| Six feet per line of poetry | Hexameter |
| Seven feet per line of poetry | Heptameter |
| Eight feet per line of poetry | Octameter |
| A metric foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable | Trochee |
| A metric foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | Iamb |
| A metric foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables | Dactyl |
| A metric foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable | Anapest |
| The omission of a final syllable in a rhythmic line | Catalexis |
| The rhythm of language usually expressable in the identifaction of a particular type of foot and the number per line | Meter |
| Developed from ritualistic chanting of myths and has traditionally been grouped into two poetic categories, epics and ballads. a poem that was originally sung or recited with a musical instrument called a lyre. | Narrative vs Lyric poetry |
| Figure of repetition that occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases | Anaphora |
| A question asked without expecting an answer but for the sake of emphasis or effect. | Rhetorical Question |
| The man was tall; his head reached the ceiling, his legs were impossibly long, and he towered over every basketball player in the room. | Amplification- Descriptive expansion on a previously mentioned idea in order to provide clarity. |
| Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence: We talked and laughed and sang and danced together. | Polysyndeton - the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause to create emphasis or a feeling of multiplicity. (Sarah Mace) |
| The teacher told her students that they need to turn their work in on time, that they need to work hard, and that they need to participate in class. | Parallelism- The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. (katie midkiff) |
| Boom, boom, boom! The thunder rolled across the sky, accompanied by by flashes of lightning and the clatter of raindrops falling on the roof. | Onomatopoeia - A word used to simulate the sound it references. Ex: "Boom" and "Clatter" (This is from Stuart) |
| "(And the) white beast (of the) dim sea," -William Butler Yeates | Pyrrhic |
| Ex: So class, what are going to learn about today? Literary Terms! | Hypophora - A figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then provides a answer immediately following the question. -Ebony Phillips |
| “’It be all fool-talk, lock, stock, and barrel; that’s what it be, an’ nowt else. These bans an’ wafts an’ boh-ghosts an’ bar-guests an’ bogles an’ all ament them is only fit to set bairns an’ dizzy women a-belderin’,” (Stoker 80). | Cacophony: The term in poetry refers to the use of words that combine sharp, harsh, hissing, or unmelodious sounds. By: Jacob Metzger |
| " I hate this song! Hearing it on the radio just makes me want to....." | aposiopesis - A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue. |
| Assonance- the repetition in two or more words of a vowel sound in a phrase or line. | What is this an example of? “Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!” |
| Asyndeton-purposefully excluding conjunctions. | Ex: He was tough, he was strong, he was mean. |
| "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness." What is this an example of? (hint: focus on the sounds and feeling of the words) | Euphony! It represents Euphony because the words in the phrase have a pleasant spoken sound that are made of smooth consonants. (JOSH RUSE) |
| "Foul is Fair and Fair is Foul" (Macbeth) Card By Eric Brehob What is this an example of? | Chiasmus Due to inverted parallelism Card by Eric Brehob |
| Two or more words with the same sound at the beginning of the words: "Suzy sells sea shells on the sea shore" (Kim Phillips) | Alliteration |
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