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Perrines Rhythm

Use thes to review for Poetry Test #2

QuestionAnswer
Alliteration repetition of initial consonant sounds
Assonance repetition of vowel sounds
Consonance repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry
Masculine Rhyme rhyme in the final syllable
Feminine Rhyme rhyme involving the second and third final syllables
Internal Rhyme rhyme within a line of poetry
End Rhyme rhyme corresponding to the end of a poetic line
Approximate Rhyme rhyme that has some sound correspondence but is not perfect
Refrain a repeated word, line or phrase within a poem
Anaphora repetition of the opening words or phrase in a series of lines
Rhetorical Stresses the stressing of words in natural speech
End Stopped
Enjambment when the end of a poetic thought or sentence flows into one or more successive lines of poetry
Caesuras a pause within a line of poetry
Free Verse poetry that does not have organized rhyme and rhythm patterns
Prose poem a short piece having the intentions of poetry but written in prose not verse
Foot the basic unit of scansion
Iamb an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
Trochee a stresses syllable followed by an unstressed one
Anapest two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one
Dactyl a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones
Spondee two stressed syllables
Duple a two syllable foot
Triple a three syllable foot
Dimeter two poetic feet per line
Trimeter three poetic feet per line
Tetrameter four poetic feet per line
Pentameter five poetic feet per line
Hexameter six poetic feet per line
Stanza a unit of poetic lines
Metrical Variations departures from the established metrical patterns
Substitution the replacement of the expected metrical foot with another
Extrametrical the addition of an additional unstressed syllable in a potic line
Truncation the omission of an accented syllable
Scansion the process of determining rhythm
Grammatical Pause a pause caused by a mark of punctuation
Rhetorical Pause a pause cause by natural speech and meaning
Blank Verse unrhymed iambic pentameter
Onomatopoeia words that approximate meaing through their sound
Euphony a smooth, pleasant sound
Cacophony a harsh, unpleasant sound
Created by: tmartinson
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