Sound+and+Poetry+Terms

 ** Sound/Poetry Terms **    ||  || But since she prick’d thee out for women’s **pleasure**, Mine be thy love and thy love’s use their **treasure**. ||  ||   ||  · monometer: one foot/beat per line  · dimeter: two feet/beats per line  · trimeter: three feet/beats per line  · <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">tetrameter: four feet/beats per line <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">pentameter: five feet/beats per line <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">hexameter: six feet/beats per line <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">heptameter: seven feet/beats per line  || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list 36.05pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">two line stanza: couplet <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list 36.05pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">three line stanza: tercet <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list 36.05pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">four line stanza: quatrain <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list 36.05pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">five line stanza: quintet <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list 36.05pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">six line stanza: sestet or sextet <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list 36.05pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">seven line stanza: septet <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list 36.05pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">eight line stanza: octave <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: list 36.05pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">fourteen line stanza: sonnet <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 36.0pt center 216.0pt right 432.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Syntax ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A sentence which contains one independent clause  || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A sentence which contains two independent clauses combined with a coordinating conjunction or semi-colon <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A sentence which contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses  || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A sentence which contains two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A sentence which makes a statement  || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A sentence which asks a question  || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A sentence in which a question which you do not actually expect the reader to answer  || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A sentence which is simply a more forceful version of a declarative sentence, marked at the end with an <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">[|exclamation mark]  <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">. || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A sentence which gives a direct command to someone -- this type of sentence can end either with a period or with an exclamation mark  || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">makes complete sense if brought to a close before the actual ending, e.g., We reached Edmonton / that morning / after a turbulent flight / and some exciting experiences  || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">  || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">makes sense only when the end of the sentence is reached, e.g., That morning, after a turbulent flight and some exciting experiences, we reached Edmonton. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">is a poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to each other; for example; “Her old withered face had a youthful glow.”  || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">(parallelism) refers to a grammatical or structural similarity between sentence or parts of sentences. It involves an arrangement of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs so that elements of equal importance are equally developed and equally phrased: e.g., “The sun rises; the sun sets. || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">is a sentence fragment used deliberately for a persuasive purpose or to create a desired effect. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">  || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Is the deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses: example: I came, I saw, I conquered. || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Is the deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis – to highlight quantity or mass of detail. Example: During the summer the students had to write World Literature I, and World Literature II, and the Extended Essay, and all the other assignments. || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Alliteration  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">is the repetition of first consonant sound  ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Anaphora  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.  ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Assonance  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">is the repetition of vowel sounds. This repetition can occur anywhere in the words.  ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Cacophony  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A harsh, discordant, unpleasant sounding choice and arrangement of sounds  ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Caesura  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A pause introduced into the reading of a line by a punctuation  ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Consonance  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">is the repetition of consonant sounds. Although its similar to alliteration, consonance is not limited to the first letters of the words
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">End-stopped Line  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation   ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Enjambment  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Euphony  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A smooth, pleasant sounding choice and arrangement of sound  ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Feminine Rhyme  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Is a rhyme that matches two or more syllables, usually found at the end of the verse   || <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Free/Blank verse  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">poetry that is free of regular meter, meaning free of a strict pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables..
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Internal rhyme  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">rhyme that occurs within the line of poetry  ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Masculine Rhyme  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">is a <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">[|rhyme] <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">on a single stressed <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">[|syllable] <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">at the end of a line of <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">[|poetry] <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">. This is much more common than feminine rhyme   ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Meter  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">poetic measure; arrangement of words with a regular beat (metrical foot), patterned, or rhythmic verses:
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Mimetic  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">characterized by, exhibiting, or of the nature of imitation or mimicry: //mimetic gestures.//  ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Onomatopoeia  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">is the use of words that sound like what they mean  ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Rhyme scheme  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">the pattern of rhyme found in a poem
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Run-on Line  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow into the succeeding line – similar to enjambent  ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Sonnet  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.  ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Stanza  ** || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Simple Sentence  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Compound Sentence  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Complex Sentence  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Compound-Complex Sentence  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Declarative Sentence  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Interrogative Sentence  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Rhetorical Sentence  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Exclamatory Sentence  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Imperative Sentence  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Loose Sentence  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Periodic Sentence  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Juxtaposition (syntax)  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Parallel Structure  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Rhetorical Fragment  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Asyndeton  **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Polysyndeton  **