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AP Lit Chapter 17

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Consonant Sounds Sounds that accompany vowel sounds, that are produced as a result of the touching or close proximity of the tongue or the lips in relation to the teeth or palate, to be compared and contrasted with vowel sounds.
Stop Consonant Sounds Consonant sounds that in an initial position require a momentary stoppage of breath, and then a quick release.
Continuant Consonant Sounds Consonants that may be sustained by a stream or flow of breath while the consonant position is being held.
Semivowel Consonant Sounds Sounds that occupy a pronunciation between vowels and consonants.
Alliteration The repetition of identical consonant sounds at the beginning of words in close proximity.
Assonance The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity.
Rhyme The repetition of identical or closely related sounders in the syllables of different words almost always at the ends of lines.
Exact Rhyme The placement of rhyming words in which both the vowel and concluding consonant sounds are identical.
Internal Rhyme The occurrence of rhyming words within a single line of verse.
Cliché Rhyme An overly used and particularly easy rhyme.
Onomatopoeia A blending of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate or suggest the activity being described.
Euphony Word groups containing consonant sounds and vowels together that encourage speakers to utter an easy and pleasant flow of spoken sound.
Cacophony Meaning bad sound, it refers to words containing sharp and heavy accents.
Poetic Rhythm The musical quality, beat, or flow produced by a repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Heavy stress A rhyme ending with a strong stress.
Light stress In speech and in metrical scansion, the less emphasized syllables.
Accent/Beat The heavy stresses or lines in poetry that govern the meter of the line.
Feet Measured combination of heavy and light stresses.
Scansion The act of determining the prevailing rhythm and poetic characteristics of a poem.
Accented Syllable A syllable receiving a major, or heavy, stress or accent.
Unaccented Syllable A syllable receiving a light stress.
Meter The number of feet within a line of traditional verse.
Pentameter A line of five metrical feet.
Tetrameter A line consisting of four metrical feet.
Trimeter A line consisting of three metrical feet.
Dimeter A poetic line consisting of two metrical feet.
Monometer A line consisting of one metrical foot.
Two Syllable Foot A fundamental unit of poetic meter consisting of exactly two syllables with a specific stress pattern.
Iamb A 2 syllable foot consisting of a light stress followed by a heavy stress.
Trochee A 2 syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress followed by a light stress.
Spondee A 2 syllable foot consisting of successive, equally heavy accents.
Pyrrhic A substitute metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables.
Three Syllable Foot A metrical unit consisting of three syllables arranged in a specific pattern of stressed and unstressed beats.
Dactyl A 3 syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress followed by two lights.
Anapest A 3 syllable foot consisting of two light stresses climaxed by a heavy stress.
Imperfect Foot A metrical foot consisting of a single syllable, either heavily or lightly stressed.
Sprung Rhythm A poetic line in which the accents are sprung forth by the close juxtaposition of one syllable stressed words.
Caesura The pauses or junctures separating words and phrases within lines of poetry.
Rhyme Schemes A pattern of rhyme.
Couplet Two lines that may be unified by rhyme or complementary ideas or expressions.
Quatrains A four line stanza or poetic unit.
Stanza A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose.
Ballad Measure A narrative poem composed of quatrains in a pattern of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter and rhyming abab.
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