Unit 2 Sound And Syntax Terms Flashcards
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Rhetorical device that used syntactical parallelism in 2 adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meanings
Antithesis
Repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds (ex. she sells sea shells by the sea shore)
Alliteration
A pause in the middle of a line of poetry usually indicated by a mark of punctuation
Caesura
2 parallel phrases, clauses, or sentences in which the second reverses the elements of the first inverting the parallel structure
Chiasmus
The repetition of terminal consonant sounds that create extra emphasis on the word involved (clasps, hands)
Consonance
A poetic device in which lines flow past the end of the one verse line and into the next with no punctuation at the end of the first verse line
Enjambment
Word pairs that are spelled alike but pronounced differently
Eye rhyme
Poetry with no set meter or rhyme
Free verse
Rhyme that occurs between words within a single line of poetry
Internal rhyme
Agreement of sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward with a difference in the immediately proceeding consonant sounds
Perfect rhyme
A rhyme between 2 words with similar but mismatched sounds (star, door)
Slant rhyme
Rhyme that occurs at the ends of corresponding lines of poetry
End rhyme
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Meter
Most used meter in English poetry
Iambic pentameter
Use of words that sound like what they mean (ex. Click, clack, pow)
Onomatopoeia
The specific combination of 2 or 3 stressed and/or unstressed syllables that predominately repeats throughout poem’s lines
Poetic feet
The art of public speaking
Rhetoric
(Short answer) questions asked not to receive information but to achieve an effect
Rhetorical question
Two or more words having identical sounds in the last stressed vowel and all of the sounds following that vowel
Rhyme
The process of identifying the 2 major features of meter in a particular poem
Scansion
Lines of poetry that end with a natural pause indicated by punctuation
End-stopped lines
In poetry, a line ending in which the final syllable is unstressed
Feminine ending
In poetry, a line ending in which the final syllable is stressed
Masculine ending
To describe the meter of a poem you must first do what?
Determine the poetic feet and consider the length of the line
