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Poetry unit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Euphony | The use of pleasant, beautiful sounds in poetry. |
| Cacophony | The use of harsh sounds in poetry. |
| Rhyme | When words with the same sound, or almost the same sound. |
| Internal Rhymes | Rhymes that occurs within the line. |
| End Rhyme | Rhymes that occur in the last words of lines. |
| Rhyme Scheme | A repeating pattern of end rhyme. |
| Masculine and Fominine Rhyme | M- 1 syllable rhyme F- 2 syllable rhyme |
| Mosaic Rhyme | Rhymes made up of several words Ex: dominant & common hat |
| Alliteration | A pattern of repeated syllables, typically at the end of words. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in words |
| Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds in words |
| Stopped Constants | PB/TD/KG are grouped in this category of consonant sounds |
| Meter | The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of poetry |
| Foot | Each unit of pattern that repeats |
| Ballad Stanza | Line one and three iambic tetrameter, and lines two and four iambic trimeter. |
| Iamb | iambic U / |
| Trochee | trochaic / U |
| Spondee | spondaic / / |
| Dactyl | dactylic / U U |
| Anapest | anapestic U U / |
| Catalexis | Dropping a final stress from a trochee of a dactyl |
| Stanza | House |
| Speaker | character of a peom |
| English sonnet | 3 quatrains and couplet ababcdcdefef ee |
| Itailian sonnet | octet and a couplet abbaabba cdecde |
| spenserian sonnet | 3 quatrains and 1 couplet ababbcbccdcd ee |
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kent styles
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