Poetry Vocab 2 Review

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Use of two phonetically similar sounds, not identical.

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approximate rhyme

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Rhymes in the final words of poetry lines

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end rhyme

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Rhyme where stressed syllables share identical vowels or consonants (e.g., eyes, light; years, yours).

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slant rhyme

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Long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables in verse form

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rhythm

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Use of the same word/phrase multiple times in a poem

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repetition

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words or syllables

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alliteration

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Close juxtaposition of similar vowel sounds; repetition of vowels as an alternative to rhyme.

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assonance

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Recurrence of consonants at the end of stressed syllables without similar vowel correspondence.

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consonance

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Creation of words imitating natural sounds

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onomatopoeia

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Successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.

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parallelism