Aice lit terms 4

Anaphora

words repeat at beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences

apostrophe

speaker directly addresses someone/something that is not present, can't respond

diacope

word/phrase repeated with small number of intervening words

formal verse

rhymed poetry that uses strict meter

hyperbole

writer/speaker exaggerates

paradox

seems to contradict itself, but upon further examination, contains same truth/reason

rhyme

repetition of similar sounds in two or more words

rhyme scheme

pattern in which end rhymes are repeated in a works poetry

simile

Compares two unlike things using like or as

sestet

six line stanza of peotry

slant rhyme

rhyme in which two words located at the end of a lone of poetry themselves end in similar consonant, assonance, consonance sounds

soliloquy

character speaks to themselves, relating their innermost thoughts and feelings as if thinking out loud

sonnet

14 line poem that uses iambic pentameter, follow a set rhyme scheme

Spondee

2 syllable metrical pattern where both syllables are stressed

stanza

group of lines form smaller unit within a poem

trochee

2 syllable metrical pattern, stressed syllable is followed by unstressed syllable