alliteration repetition of initial consonant sounds: example: with blade, with bloody, blameful...
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Alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds:
Example: With blade, with bloody, blameful blade…
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Assonance
Assonance is the repetition of middle vowel sounds
Example: fight/hive (note the “I” sounds)
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Blank Verse
Blank verse is unrhymed uniambic pentameter. (Note: this is what the majority of Shakespeare’s plays are written in.)
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Consonance
Consonance is the repetition of inner or end consonant sounds in words.
Example: broods with warm breast (note the “r” sounds).
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Foot
A foot is made up of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry (and typically represents one beat).
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Rising Feet
The two types of rising feet are
Iamb
Anapest
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Falling Feet
The two type of falling feet are
Trochee
Dactyl
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Other types of feet
Spondee: two unstressed syllables in a row.
Pyrrhic foot: two stressed syllables in a row.
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Free Verse
Free verse is poetry (usually contemporary) that has no meter or rhyme, and line length may vary.
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Internal Rhyme
This happens when you have rhyme within a line (which is itself an example)
Another example: “There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold.”
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Meter
Meter is the number of feet per line
Monometer: one footDimeter: two feetTrimeter: three feetTetrameter: four feetPentameter: five feetHexameter: six feetHeptameter: seven feet
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Onomatopoeia
The use of words to imitate real sounds
Example: crack, snap, buzz
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Personification
Personification is giving human characteristics to either animate or inanimate things.
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Rhyme
Exact: rose, toes
Slant: hiss, fizz
Identical: cat, cat
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Rhyme Scheme
The marking of end rhymes (at the end of a line) with letters, such as A, B, A, B
Example:
Annihilating all that’s made (A)
To a green thought in a green shade (A)
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Scansion
Marking the feet and meter for the poem, so as to identify its overall pattern, such as iambic pentameter
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Sestina
A poem consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three line closer. The words at the end of each stanza are repeated in new patterns in successive stanzas.
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Sonnet
A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, consisting of three quatrains and a couplet, with a rhyme scheme of ABAB,CDCD,EFEF, GG
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Stanza
A grouping of lines in a poem (equivalent to a paragraph in prose).
Two lines: couplet
Three lines: tercet
Four lines: quatrain
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Villanelle
A poem consisting of five tercet and a quatrain, in which the first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated as the final lines of the following tercets—and then used together in the close.
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