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Metrical and Grammatical Terms
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English
12th Grade
11/20/2008

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Alliteration
Definition
The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words.
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Assonance
Definition
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
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Ballad Meter
Definition
A four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four.
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Blank Verse
Definition
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Dactyl
Definition
A metrical foot of three syllables, in accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables.
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End-stopped
Definition
A line with a pause at the end. Line that ends with any sort of punctuation.
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Free Verse
Definition
Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical.
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Heroic Couplet
Definition
Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit.
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Hexameter
Definition
A line containing 6 feet.
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Iamb
Definition
A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable follow by an accented syllable.
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Internal Rhyme
Definition
Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end.
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning.
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Pentameter
Definition
A line containing five feet.
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Rhyme Royal
Definition
A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets.
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Sonnet
Definition
Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem.
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Stanza
Definition
Usually a repeated grouping of three of more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme.
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Terza Rime
Definition
A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc.
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Tetrameter
Definition
A line of four feet.
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Antecedent
Definition
That which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers.
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Clause
Definition
A group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence.
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Ellipsis
Definition
The omission of a word or several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable.
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Imperative
Definition
The mood of a verb that gives an order.
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Modify
Definition
To restrict or limit the meaning.
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Syntax
Definition
The structure of a sentence.
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Periodic sentence
Definition
A sentence grammatically complete only at the end.
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Parallel Structure
Definition
A similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph.
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