Vocab Flashcards
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Free Verse
a type of poetry that does not contain patterns of rhyme or meter. Free verse is considered an open form of poetry, as opposed to poetry written in structure or form, and tends to follow natural speech patterns and rhythms.
Blank Verse
a type of poetry written in a regular meter that does not contain rhyme. Blank verse is most commonly found in the form of iambic pentameter.
Meter
the rhythm of syllables in a line of verse or in a stanza of a poem. Depending on the language, this pattern may have to do with stressed and unstressed syllables, syllable weight, or number of syllables.
Onomatopoeia
a word that phonetically mimics or resembles the sound of the thing it describes.
Consonance
a literary device in which a consonant sound is repeated in words that are in close proximity. The repeated sound can appear anywhere in the words, unlike in alliteration where the repeated consonant sound must occur in the stressed part of the word.
Assonance
the repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words. To qualify as assonance, the words must be close enough for the repetition of the sound to be noticeable.
Alliteration
the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are in close proximity to each other. This repetition of sounds brings attention to the lines in which it is used, and creates more aural rhythm. In poems, alliteration can also refer to repeated consonant sound in the stressed syllables of a line.
Rime
the part of a syllable that consists of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it. the repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems or songs.
Internal Rime
a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
Masculine
a rhyme that matches up single syllables. You’ll see it most often in end rhymes like: “Look! It’s a zombie mouse! / Quick! Run inside the house!” Mouse and house? Each is a one-syllable word. Stressed
Feminine
two syllables. That’s why it’s also called double rhyme. For example: “I kidnapped some weasels / And now I have the measles.” That’s a feminine rhyme because wea and mea rhyme and sels and sles rhyme. Unstressed
Refrain
a verse, a line, a set, or a group of lines that appears at the end of stanza, or appears where a poem divides into different sections.
Stanza
a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme.
Iamb
a literary device that can be defined as a foot containing unaccented and short syllables, followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem (unstressed/stressed syllables).
A foot
The basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter. A foot usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable. The standard types of feet in English poetry are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest, spondee, and pyrrhic (two unstressed syllables)
