Eng II terms

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• most common metric pattern

• alliteration

• repetition of initial consonant sound

• iamb

• unstressed syllable followed by stressed

• meter

• regular stressed/unstressed syllables

• rhyme

• identical ending sounds

• iambic pentameter

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• sentences flow across poetic lines

• consonance

• pause in the middle of a line of poetry

• caesura

• repetition of consonant sounds in words

• assonance

• poetry lines ending with punctuation

• end-stopped lines

• repetition of vowel sounds

• enjambment

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• repetition at the beginning of phrases

• antithesis

• art of public speaking

• rhetorical question

• parallel structure with contrasts

• chiasmus

• a question asked to achieve an effect

• anaphora

• inverted parallel structure (ABCBA)

• rhetoric

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• divisions of poems

• stanza

• regular pace or beat

• rhythm

• words that appeal to five senses

• concrete language

• meaning of word plus implied emotions

• connotative language

• artfully compressed thought

• poetry

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• A type of poem that expresses personal emotions or feelings

• synecdoche

• narrative poem derived from folklore

• repetition

• composition written in meter

• lyric poem

• Using a part to represent the whole

• ballad

• repeating words, lines, meter, or syntax

• verse

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• verse having end rhyme and regular meter

• rhyme scheme

• words that are harsh or dissonant

• free verse

• pattern of rhyme sounds

• blank verse

• unrhymed iambic pentameter

• cacophony

• poetry with no meter or rhyme

• rhymed verse

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• literature written to be acted

• metaphor

• describing one sense using another

• tragedy

• directly comparing dissimilar things

• comedy

• drama focused on light-hearted content

• synesthesia

• flaws of the protagonist cause suffering

• drama

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• clever but unexpected turn of phrase

• soliloquy

• a major division in the action of a play

• wit

• comic elements in serious drama

• comic relief

• speech revealing a character's thoughts

• acts

• subdivision of an act

• scenes