WORD

Rhyme Rhythm Enjambment Caesura Alliteration

DEFINITON
Words that sound the same or are similar in their endings A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause A pause near the middle of a line The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words Having or making a hissing sound, articulated with such a sound The basic plosives in English are t, k, and p (voiceless) and d, g, and b (voiced) The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in no rhyming stressed syllables A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named The relation of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form A word or utterance of one syllable A word of more than three syllables Where the sound is longer (e.g. moon) Where the sound is shorter (e.g. bed) Imagery that has to do with something you can see, hear, taste, smell, or feel.

Sibilance Plosives Assonance Metaphor Simile Onomatopoeia Personification

Monosyllabic words Polysyllabic words Long vowel sounds Short vowel sounds Sensory imagery