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Poetry unit
Term | Definition |
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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 |