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The Sounds of Poetry
Question | Answer |
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The rise and fall of our voices as we use language. | Rhythm |
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. | Meter |
Poetry that does not have a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (meter). | Free Verse |
Marking accented syllables with a (/) and unaccented syllables with a (U). | Scanning |
The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words near one another in a poem. | Rhyme |
Rhymes at the conclusion of two or more lines of poetry. | End Rhyme |
Rhymes within lines of poetry. | Internal Rhyme |
The pattern of end rhymes in a poem. | Rhyme Scheme |
Rhymes involving sounds that are similar but do not rhyme. | Slant Rhyme |
Words that are spelled as if they would rhyme, but, because of their pronunciation, do not. | Eye Rhyme |