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English 10 TriA
Stack #106968
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| foot | a unit of meter which may have two or three syllables |
| monometer | one foot per line |
| dimeter | two feet per line |
| trimeter | three feet per line |
| pentameter | five feet per line |
| blank verse | lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme |
| free verse | lines do not have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme |
| end rhyme | the similarity of sound occurs at the end of two or more lines of verse |
| triple rhyme | the last three syllables of a word rhyme with another |
| alliteration | the repetition of inition consonant sounds |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern or sequence in which the rhyme occurs |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word to represent natural sounds |
| assonance | the similarity or repetion of vowel sounds |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds |
| refrain | the repetion of one or more phrases |
| simile | a direct comparision between two unelated things using like or as |
| metaphor | direct comparition between two unrelated things |
| personification | giving himan characteristics to inanimate objects |
| synecdoche | mentioning part to represent the whole |
| metonymy | stubstitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis |
| litotes | an understatement achieved by saying the opposite of what one means |
| apostrophe | the addressing sof someone or something usually not present |
| symbol | a word or image that signifies something |
| allusion | a reference to a familiar character or incident without explanation |
| imagery | an appeal to any of the five senses |
| couplet | two lines of rhymed verse |
| quatrain | four line stanza |
| sonnet | fourteen line lyric poem |
| noun | can be found in the subject prep. phrase do io subject compliment |
| Proper noun | if two words then treat as one when diagramming |
| action verbs | show the physical or mental action of the subject |
| test for action verbs | can I do it? can I conjugate it? |
| Auxilary verbs | communicate the time and/or condition of the subject |
| adverbs | answer when where how to what extent |
| coordinating conjunctions | connect two like items FANBOYS |
| independent clause | complete sentence |
| dividing two independent clauses | comma + cc or ; |
| direct object | will never be found in a prep phrase follows a (transitive) action verb |
| indirect object | who or what recieved the do (between the verb and the do) |
| linking verb | links the subject witha noun pronoun adjective in the subject compliment |
| Iambic | syllables are unstressed stressed |
| trochaic | syllables are stressed unstressed |
| spondaic | two stressed syllables |
| dactylic | syllabes and stressed unstressed unstressed |
| stanza | division of a poem based on thought/form |
| couplet | a two line stanza |
| quatrain | a four line stanza |
| feminine rhyme | also known as double rhyme; two rhyming syllables |
| masculine rhyme | one rhyming syllable |
| triple rhyme | three rhyming syllables |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within a line of poetry |
| pyrrhic | two unstressed syllables; very rare |
Created by:
mrsdavis
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