| A | B |
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| rhyme | repetition of sound at the end of words |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme within a line of poetry |
| slant rhyme | words that are meant to rhyme, but do not rhyme exactly |
| alliteration | repetiiton of a constant sound at the beginning of a word |
| onomatopoeia | words that immitate sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds at the ends of words or syllables |
| repetition | repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis |
| parallelism | repetition of a grammatical structure |
| scansion | marking of the stressed syllables in a poem to determine meter |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse, especially iambic pentameter |
| free verse | no regular pattern or meter |
| foot | smallest unit of meter |
| trochaic foot | A kind of metrical foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one |
