| A | B |
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| literal language | language meant to be taken word for word |
| inversion | reversal of regular word order in a sentence. ie: "Like a small gray/coffeepot/sits the squirrel" - Humbert Wolfe |
| rhythm | pattern of beats or stresses |
| iamb | unstressed syllable followeed by a stressed syllable |
| iambic pentameter | five feet to a line and each foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| blank verse | unrhyming iambic pentameter |
| rhyme | repetition of sounds |
| rhyme scheme | regular pattern of rhyming words |
| exact rhyme | rhyming sounds are identicle. ie: dreary/weary |
| approximate or slant rhyme | rhyming sounds are similar....ie: prove/glove |
| internal rhyme | rhyming words which fall within a line...ie "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary" - Edgar Allen Poe |
| end rhyme | rhyming words are at the end of lines |
| end-stopped line | a line that ends with a major pause, usually done with punctuation |
| run-on line | a line that does not end with a major pause |
| couplet | a pair of consecutive rhyming lines |
| caesura | a pause in the middle of a line |
| simile | a comparison of 2 unlike things using 'like' or 'as' |
| scansion | process of determining a poem's rhythmical pattern |
| stanza | a group of lines considered a unit |
| onomatopoeia | words which intimate sounds |
| understatement | saying less than is actually meant |
