Eng II terms

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• unstressed syllable followed by stressed

• meter

• regular stressed/unstressed syllables

• iamb

• most common metric pattern

• iambic pentameter

• identical ending sounds

• rhyme

• repetition of initial consonant sound

• alliteration

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• sentences flow across poetic lines

• assonance

• poetry lines ending with punctuation

• consonance

• pause in the middle of a line of poetry

• caesura

• repetition of vowel sounds

• enjambment

• repetition of consonant sounds in words

• end-stopped lines

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• parallel structure with contrasts

• anaphora

• repetition at the beginning of phrases

• rhetorical question

• inverted parallel structure (ABCBA)

• rhetoric

• a question asked to achieve an effect

• chiasmus

• art of public speaking

• antithesis

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• regular pace or beat

• stanza

• words that appeal to five senses

• rhythm

• artfully compressed thought

• concrete language

• meaning of word plus implied emotions

• connotative language

• divisions of poems

• poetry

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• repeating words, lines, meter, or syntax

• repetition

• A type of poem that expresses personal emotions or feelings

• synecdoche

• Using a part to represent the whole

• ballad

• narrative poem derived from folklore

• lyric poem

• composition written in meter

• verse

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• words that are harsh or dissonant

• rhymed verse

• unrhymed iambic pentameter

• blank verse

• verse having end rhyme and regular meter

• free verse

• poetry with no meter or rhyme

• cacophony

• pattern of rhyme sounds

• rhyme scheme

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• drama focused on light-hearted content

• metaphor

• literature written to be acted

• tragedy

• directly comparing dissimilar things

• drama

• flaws of the protagonist cause suffering

• comedy

• describing one sense using another

• synesthesia

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• speech revealing a character's thoughts

• acts

• comic elements in serious drama

• scenes

• clever but unexpected turn of phrase

• comic relief

• subdivision of an act

• wit

• a major division in the action of a play

• soliloquy