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| sound | vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's ear. |
| hear . | listening with the ear the sound made by (someone or something). |
| sight | something that one sees or that can be seen. |
| vowel | a letter representing a vowel sound, such as a, e, i, o, u. |
| short vowels | vowel sounds such as ‘a’ in cat, ‘e’ as in pet, ‘I’ as in hit, ‘o’ as in hop, ‘u’ as in cup |
| long vowels | vowel sounds such as ‘a’ in cave, ‘e’ as in meat, ‘I’ as in night, ‘o’ as in cope, ‘u’ as in mute |
| consonants | letters representing sounds such as b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, and so on. |
| syllable | a group of letters within a word having one vowel sound |
| rhyme | repetition of the same vowel sound at the end of 2 or more lines of poetry |
| rhythm | the metrical beat or pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line |
| beat | to repeatedly pronounce several stressed syllables in a line of poetry resulting in rhythmic movement |
| stressed syllable | a syllable that is pronounced more loudly or strongly then another syllable |
| unstressed syllable | a syllable that is pronounced less loudly or strongly then another syllable |
| meter | the measurement of the stressed and unstressed sounds in a line, usually measured as a foot. |
| foot | 1 unit or combination of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| iambic | a foot consisting of an initial unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
