EOC Terms Section 5

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End rhyme

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Rhymes that occur at the ends of lines

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Internal rhyme

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Rhymes that occur in the middle of a line

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Rhythm

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Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry; brings out the musical quality of language

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Rhyme scheme

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Pattern of end rhymes in a poem; indicated by the use of a different letter of the alphabet for each new rhyme

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Rising action

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State in the plot in which the conflict develops and story events build toward a climax; conflict becomes more intense

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Satire

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Literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society; can be gently witty, mildly abrasive, or bitterly critical

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Scene

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A sequence of continuous action in a play, movie, opera, or book

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Science fiction

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Fiction in which a writer explores unexpected possibilities of the past or the future, using known scientific data and theories as well as his or her creative imagination

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Secondary source

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Presents information compiled from or based on other sources

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Setting

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The time and place of the action of a story