sound devices and genre

Feminine rhyme

• two syllables: picky, tricky, stress the first

Alliteration

recurrent sound patterns in a sequence of nearby words

Consonance

repetition of a sequence of consonants 

Assonance

repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds

Apostrophe

Direct address to abstract or nonhuman entity

Paraphrasis

Roundabout way of avoiding plain words

Epic

Great battles between nations

Elegy

Commemorating/celebrating the dead

Pastoral

Idealized rural landscape

georgic

country life as labor

iambic pentameter (“heroic”)

v/ v/ v/ v/ v/ 

iambic tetrameter

 v/ v/ v/ v/

sonnet rhyme scheme

abab cdcd efef gg

rhyming couplet

aabbcc