Poetry + Sound Devices Lit Terms
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18 Terms
Black Verse
Line in iambic pentameter with no rhyme
Free Verse
Does not rhyme or follow any meter like iambic pentameter
Explication
Essay about a poem (write/analyze)
Scanning
Taking lines of poetry and identifying the stressed and unstressed syllables
Couplet
Two rhymed lines in any meter
Iambic Pentameter
5 iambic feet in lines of poetry, follows the pattern stressed, unstressed
Sonnet
A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter
Meter
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Stanza
Paragraph in poetry, a group of several lines
Enjambment
Sentence continues onto the next line
Elegy
Poem about a dead person
Juxtaposition
The placing of two things next to each other that are opposites
Alliteration
The repetition of the same letter or sounds between nearby words
Assonance
Involves the repetition of only vowel sounds
Onomatopoeia
Imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes
Antithesis
Two clauses that contradict each other
Parallelism
A word or phrase that has repeated elements of grammatical structure
Anaphora
Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of the sentence