Sound and Sense CH 11-14

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

The repetition of vowel sounds

The repetition of final consonant sounds

The repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sounds

When the rhyme sounds involve only one syllable

When the rhyme sounds involve two r more syllables

When one or more rhyming words are within the line

When the rhyming words are at the ends of lines

Words with any kind of sound similarity, from close to fairly remote

When repetition is done according to some fixed pattern

Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound

One or more syllables given more prominence in pronunciation

Used to make our intentions clear

The end of the line corresponds with an natural speech pause

The sense of the line moves on without pause into the next line

Pauses taht occur within lines, either grammatical or rhetorical

Nonmetrical poetry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line, and in which pauses, like breaks, and formal patterns develop organically from the requirements of the individual poem rather than from established poetic forms; the predominating type of poetry now being written

Usually a short compostition having the intentions of poretry but written in prose rather than verse

The identifying characteristic of rhythmic language that we can tap our feet to

Consists normally of one accented syllable plus one or two unaccented syllables, though occasionally there may be no unaccented syllables

Consists of a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem

Call to attention to some of the sounds because they depart from what is regular

Replacing the regular foot with another one

Syllables added at the beginnings or endings of lines

The omission of an unaccented syllable

The process of defining the metrical form of a poem

The silent drumbeat set up in our minds

the actual rhythm of the words

A pause introduced into the reading of a line by a mark of punctuation

A natural pause, unmarked by punctuation, introduced into the reading of a line by its phrasing or syntax

Iambic pentameter and unrhymed

the use of words that sound like what they mean

its sound, by a process as yet obscure, to some degree connects with their meaning

A smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

A harsh, discordant, unpleasand-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

the stimulation of two or more senses simultaneously

the internal organization of poem's content

The external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to its content

The lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning

written in a series of stanzas

a traditional pattern that applies to a whole poem

founrteen lines, almost always in iambic pentameter

divided usally between eight lines, using two rhymes arranged abbaabba, and six lines

consists of three quatrains and a concluding couplet

A 19 line fiexed form consisting of five tercets rhymed aba and a concluding quatrain rhymed abaa