Musical Devices
-arrangement of sounds, repetition, and variation
Alliteration; repetition of first letter sound
Assonance; repetition of vowel sound
Consonance; repetition of consonant sound
Anaphora; repetition of an opening word/phrase
Rhyme; repetition of accented vowel sound
-masculine; one syllable rhyme
- feminine; two or more syllable rhyme
- internal rhyme; multiple rhymes within a line (ehhem)
-end rhyme; end of line rhyme
- approximate rhyme; similar not exact
Rhythm and Meter
Rhythm; recurrence in sound pattern
Accented/Stressed; emphasis
Rhetorical Stress; clear intention
End stopped line; run on line corresponds with next
Run on; continues on next line
Caesuras; varying rhythm of lines
Free Verse; aware when necessary
Foot; one accented, 2 not
Metrical Variation; varying measure
Substitution; replacing feet
Extrametrical syllables; added at beginning or end
Truncation; omission of unaccented syllable
Scansion; defining form
Expected Rhythm- heard rhythm
Grammatical/Rhetorical pauses; punctuation or line breaks
Sound and Meaning
Onomatopoeia; word that represents sound
Phonetic intensives; sound connects to meaning
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