English Poetry Terms- Hard Terms

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11 Terms

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Slant Rhyme

rhyme that is not exact, but “close enough”

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Eye Rhyme

Words that look like they rhyme but don’t sound like it. Ex: “bomb” and “tomb”

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Masculine Rhyme

rhyme that ends with a stressed syllable or one syllable word

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Feminine Rhyme

rhyme that ends with an unstressed syllable. Usually two syllable words that rhyme are a feminine rhyme.

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Sibilance

Repetition of sounds with a high-frequency “hissing” effect, usually “s”, “sh,” and “ch” sounds.

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Enjambement

the continuation of grammatical structure across lines of poetry

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Formal poetry

poetry that adheres to a structure for rhyme and meter such as the sonnet or the villanelle.

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Blank verse

poetry written with meter but without a consistent rhyme scheme.

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assonance

repetition of vowel sounds

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Juxtaposition

two things placed alongside one another for a contrasting effect

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Foil

A character whose traits contrast with another character’s, emphasize their distinctive characteristics.

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