English 10 - poetry terms (sound devices/rhymes)

Accent

Emphasis or stress placed on a certain syllable in a foot of poetry. There are three types of accents: word, rhetorical, and metrical

Blank verse

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Cacophony

Harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangements of sounds

Ceasura

Speech pause occuring within a line. This pause can be created by punctuation, it may be a natural pause.

End-stopped line

A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation

Euphony

Smooth, pleasant sounding choice and arrangement of words.

Onomatopoeia

Use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound

Rythym

Pattern or recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables

Rhyme

Repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sound

Perfect rhyme

Different consonant sounds followed by the repetition of the accented vowel sounds and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words

Identical rhyme

When words have the same preceding consonant sound and the accented vowel sounds

Internal rhyme

Rhyme between words in the same line

End rhyme

When sounds at the end of the line rhyme

Approximate rhyme

Term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence, from close to fairly remote, but are not perfect rhymes

Feminine rhyme

Rhyme sounds involving two or more syllables, specifically when the repeated accent vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved

Masculine rhyme

Rhyme sounds involving only one syllable, specifically when the repeated accent vowel sound is the final syllable of the words involved

Alliteration

Repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds

Assonance

Repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words

Consonance

Religion at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words

Enjabment

A run-on line, continuing into the next without a grammatical break

Folk/traditional ballad

Designed to be sung

Foot

Basic unit in the scansion or measurement of metrical verse. Usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables

Literary ballad

Narrative poem designed to be sung, composed by a single author

Meter

Regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse;the measurable religion of unaccented and accented syllables in poetry

Run-on line

Line which has no natural speech pause at the end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line

Verse

Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme