Transcript Alliteration

Alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds:
Example: With blade, with bloody,
blameful blade…
Assonance
Assonance is the repetition of middle
vowel sounds
Example: fight/hive (note the “I” sounds)
Blank Verse
Blank verse is unrhymed uniambic
pentameter. (Note: this is what the
majority of Shakespeare’s plays are written
in.)
Consonance
Consonance is the repetition of inner or
end consonant sounds in words.
Example: broods with warm breast (note
the “r” sounds).
Foot
A foot is made up of a pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables in a line of poetry (and
typically represents one beat).
Rising Feet
The two types of rising feet are
Iamb
Anapest
Falling Feet
The two type of falling feet are
Trochee
Dactyl
Other types of feet
Spondee: two unstressed syllables in a row.
Pyrrhic foot: two stressed syllables in a row.
Free Verse
Free verse is poetry (usually contemporary)
that has no meter or rhyme, and line length
may vary.
Internal Rhyme
This happens when you have rhyme within a
line (which is itself an example)
Another example: “There are strange
things done in the midnight sun by the men
who moil for gold.”
Meter
Meter is the number of feet per line
Monometer: one foot
Dimeter: two feet
Trimeter: three feet
Tetrameter: four feet
Pentameter: five feet
Hexameter: six feet
Heptameter: seven feet
Onomatopoeia
The use of words to imitate real sounds
Example: crack, snap, buzz
Personification
Personification is giving human
characteristics to either animate or
inanimate things.
Rhyme
Exact: rose, toes
Slant: hiss, fizz
Identical: cat, cat
Rhyme Scheme
The marking of end rhymes (at the end of a
line) with letters, such as A, B, A, B
Example:
Annihilating all that’s made (A)
To a green thought in a green shade (A)
Scansion
Marking the feet and meter for the poem, so
as to identify its overall pattern, such as
iambic pentameter
Sestina
A poem consisting of six stanzas of six lines
each, followed by a three line closer. The
words at the end of each stanza are
repeated in new patterns in successive
stanzas.
Sonnet
A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter,
consisting of three quatrains and a couplet,
with a rhyme scheme of
ABAB,CDCD,EFEF, GG
Stanza
A grouping of lines in a poem (equivalent to
a paragraph in prose).
Two lines: couplet
Three lines: tercet
Four lines: quatrain
Villanelle
A poem consisting of five tercet and a
quatrain, in which the first and third lines
of the opening tercet are repeated as the
final lines of the following tercets—and
then used together in the close.