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1
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Inflection

A

accent (stress) among words

2
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Is inflection quantitative?

A

No

3
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Rhythm

A

sequence of sounds that are repeated (repetition)

4
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Tone

A

captured inflection that can suggest the mood

underlies mood, flexible based on reader

5
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Examples of tone

A

cheerful, mournful, melancholy, serious, humorous, playful

6
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Meter

A

intensity/accents

where do the stresses fall?

7
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What is meter tied to?

A

Inflections

8
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Euphony

A

pleasant sound

9
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Examples of euphony

A

Vowels, diphthong

Assonance, consonance, alliteration if not overdone

10
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Diphthong

A

two vowels together

11
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Example of diphthong

A

Straw, few, boil, soy, food, haul, ouch

12
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Assonance

A

repetition of vowel sounds within words

13
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Consonance

A

repetition of consonants within words (l, m, n, r, v, w)

14
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Alliteration

A

repetition of first letter in a word

15
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Resonance

A

pitch/stress on vowels

16
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Cacophony

A

unpleasant sound

17
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What words connect to rhythm?

A

Polysyndeton, anaphora, epistrophe

18
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Polysyndeton

A

repetition of conjunctions (and, but, or)

19
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Anaphora

A

repetition of first words of a phrase

20
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Epistrophe

A

repetition of last word

21
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Scansion

A

the measurement of poetic lines/verse

allows the reader to find intended sound

can establish a paattern

22
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Substitution/variation

A

change in the measure of foot from one foot to the next

23
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Does substitution/variation change the pattern of the line?

A

No

24
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Accomodation

A

substantial change to line/lines but original pattern of poem remains

25
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Catalexis

A

cutting off of final foot in line (long or short stress)

26
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Acephaly / lame foot

A

beginning of foot cut off

27
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Hypersyllabic foot

A

too many syllables per foot

28
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Anacrusis

A

one too many syallables at the beginning of the line

the opposite of acephaly

29
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End-stopped rhyme

A

lines in which meter, syntax, and sense conclude at the end of the verse

can be masculine or feminine or slant

30
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What are other names for end-stopped rhyme?

A

Complete, true, perfect

31
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Masculine rhyme

A

the sound is the same at the end of two or more lines in which the final syllable is stressed (ex: fright/night)

32
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Feminine rhyme

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the second to last syllable is long and the last syllable is short (ex: glory/story

33
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Slant rhyme

A

approximate rhyme that is done with complex variations of assonance and consonance

34
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Other names for slant rhyme

A

generic, para, parallel, oblique, half, imperfect

35
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Examples of slant rhyme

A

justice/hostess

maze/coze

drunkard/conquered

36
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Caesura

A

a pause in the line, accentuated by punctuation

happens in the middle of the line

37
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Vowels in English

A

a, e, i, o, u

sometimes w and y

38
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When are w or y a consonant?

A

When it precedes a vowel heard in the same syllable

In all other cases these letters are vowels

ex: wine, twine, whine

39
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Examples of w and y as a vowel

A

newly, dewy, and eyebrow

40
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Semivowels

A

a consonant that can be imperfectly sounded without a vowel so that at the end of a syllable its sound may be protracted

ex: al, an, az (the l, n, and z respectively)

41
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Type of consonants

A

semivowels and mutes

42
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What are the semivowels?

A

f, h, j, l, m, n, r, s, v, w, x, y, z

c and g when soft

43
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Aspirate

A

strong breath needed to produce

a subset of semivowels

c, f, g, h, j, s, x

44
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Liquids

A

l, m, n, and r

called this due to the fluency of their sounds

a subset of semivowels

45
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Mute

A

consonant that cannot be sounded at all without a vowel

at the end of a syllable the consonant suddenly stops the breath

46
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Example of mutes

A

k, g, and c

b, d, and g

47
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Spondee

A

two long stresses in a row

48
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Enjambment

A

line carries over pattern

49
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Promoted foot

A

naturally we say short but the meter makes it stressed

50
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Types of promoted feet

A

pronouns, conjunctions, adverbs, articles

51
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What do we normally do with -er and -tion sounds?

A

they are normally short

52
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Double ionic

A

pyrrhic foot followed by spondee

53
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Pyrrhic foot

A

two short stresses

54
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List the different line lengths

A
1 stress - monometer
2 - dimeter
3 - trimeter
4 - tetrameter
5 - pentameter
6 - hexameter
7 - heptameter
8 - octameter
55
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Iamb

A

light stress followed by a heavy stress

56
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Trochee

A

heavy stress followed by a light stress

57
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Dactyl

A

heavy stress followed by two light stresses

58
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Anapest

A

two light stresses followed by a heavy stress