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| assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in nieghboring words without repetition of consonants |
| caesura | a pause, metrical or rhetorical, in a line of poetry; the pause may or may not be indicated typographically |
| canto | a division of a long poem; a subdivision of an epic or other narrative3 poem; equivalent to a chapter in a prose work |
| consonance | the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different |
| end-stopped | brought to a pause at which the end of a verse line coincides with the completion of a sentence or clause; the opposite of enjambment |
| enjambment | the running over of the sence and grammatical structure from one verse line to the next without a punctuated pause |
| foot | a unit of meter which denotes the combination of stressed and unstressed sylables |
| free verse | a type of poetry that does not conform to any regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| iamb | a metrical unit of verse, having one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable |
| imagery | a critical term used to describe the words or phases which bring forth a certain picture or image in the mind of the reader |
| lyric | any fairly short poem expressing the personal mood, feeling, or meditation of a single speaker |
| meter | the regular repitition of feet ina line of poetry |
| rhythm | the ordered or free occurences of sound in poetry; regular rhythm which reoccurs is called meter |
| stanza | one of the divisions of a poem like a paragraph, characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and # of lines |
| verse | a metrical line of poetry; it is named according to the kind and number of feet composing it |
| persona | the assumed identity or fictional "I" (literally a "mask") assumed by a writer in a literary work; thus the speaker is in a lyric poem or the narrator in a fictional narrative |
| dramatic monologue | a kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent audience of one or more persons |
| anticlimax | and abrupt lapse from growing intensity to triviality in any passage of writting with effect of disappointed expectation or deflated suspense |
| afflatus | a latin term for poetic inspiration |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words |
| blank verse | unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming verse lines in secsession; usually of the same length |
| pentameter | five feet |
