Poetry Literary Terms Quiz 1--English 2024

the modulation of weak and strong (or stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech

repetition or correspondence of the terminal sounds or words

Example: hOW, nOW, brOWn, cOW

occurs when a word WITHIN a line of poetry rhymes with another word in the same or adjacent lines.

Example:

Or rather--He passed Us--

The dEWs drEW quivering and chill--

For only Gossamer, my Gown--

My Tippet--only Tulle--

the pattern of end rhymes in a poem, often noted by lower-cased letter (abba, cddc)

the more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

note: determining stress

(also known as off rhyme, near rhyme, and half rhyme)

rhyme that is slightly off or only approximate, usually because the final consonant sounds are the same, but the vowels that precede these consonants are not (example-phases and houses)

involves words that do not actually rhyme but look like they do

(a trick almost: cough, tough is an example)

an appeal to one's senses (auditory, olfactory, visual, tactile, and gustatory)

the line-by-line process of analyzing verse (poetry) to determine its meter

word choice