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Literary Terms

Enjambment -A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. An enjambed line differs from an end-stopped line in which the grammatical and logical sense is completed within the line.

Dactyl - A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, as in FLUT-ter-ing or BLUE-ber-ry.

Alliteration - The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.

Assonance - The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose

Open form - A type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, metrical pattern, and overall poetic structure.

Quatrain -A four-line stanza in a poem, the first four lines and the second four lines in a Petrachan sonnet

Hyperbole - A figure of speech involving exaggeration.

Simile - A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though.

Caesura - A strong pause within a line of verse.

Rhythm - The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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