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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Meter | basic rhythmic structure of a verse, made up of feet |
| Scansion | analysis of a poem’s metrical structure |
| Iambic Pentameter | most common meter in English poetry – sequence of five iambic feet each consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one: da-DUM |
| Trochaic Meter | the inverse of iambic meter: DUM-da |
| Euphony | words that sound good together (musical) |
| Cacophony | sounds that grate, annoy, or create a sense of distaste |
| Onomatopoeia | imitates the sound it refers to |
| Imagery | language that appeals directly to one of the senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell, or taste. |
| Synesthesia | when description of one kind of sensation produces another |
| Tone | manner in which something is said; voice the poet projects |
| Rhythm | pacing, from slow to fast, and pauses, stops, and starts |
| Rhyme | a repetition of similar sounds in words |
| End Rhyme | most common rhyme – occurs at end of verse lines |
| Internal Rhyme | the end word rhymes with a word in the middle of the same line or nearby line. |
| Eye Rhyme | words that look alike but do not sound alike blood, food |
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds that are close together |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within a series of words |
| dissonance | a disruption of of harmonic sounds or rhythms |
| verse | rhymed or metrical poetry- a line or stanza of such poetry |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| free verse | avoids pre established rhyme, stanza of such poetry |
| metaphor | implied comparison of two unlike things |
| simile | explicit comparison of two unlike things |
| irony | saying one thing and meaning another |
| paradox | an apparently impossible circumstance, situation or condition |
| personification | giving a non-being thing the characteristics of a person |
| pun | humorous use of words with multiple meanings or words that sound similar with different meanings |
| metonymy | when one thing is used in place of something closely related to it |