Sensory Language
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- assonance
- is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables
- internal rhyme
- occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line
- repetition
- the deliberate use of any element of language more than once
- rhythm
- is the pattern of beats; or stresses in spoken or written language
- hexameter
- verse written in six-foot lines
- eye rhyme
- a rhyme consisting of words such as lint and pint with similar spellings but different sounds (aka sight rhyme)
- consonance
- the repetition of consonant sound within a series of words
- meter
- the rhythmical pattern of a poem
- approximate rhyme
- where in a poem there is not complete rhyme but close
- exact rhyme
- where there is an exact rhyme scheme
- trimeter
- verse written in three-foot lines
- alliteration
- the repetition of initial consonant sounds
- rhyme
- is the reptition of sounds at the ends of words
- sensory language
- writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
- tetrameter
- verse written in four-foot lines
- monometer
- verse written in one-foot lines
- dimeter
- verse written in two-foot lines
- slant rhyme
- rhyme is which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical
- heptameter
- verse written in seven-foot lines
- onomatopaeia
- is the use of words to imitate sounds
- end rhyme
- rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry
- pentameter
- verse written in five-foot lines
- near rhyme
- a partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consorance only (aka off rhyme)