English Literary Terms

The continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to next(ex: sugar is sweet, And so are you)

Rhyme within one line in poetry

Pattern of rhyming words in poetry

Repetition of beginning consonant sounds

A stop or pause in the middle of a line of poetry(ex: Hwaet! We Gardena // in geardum)

Figurative language used in place of a noun(ex: seahorse = ship iron-shower = rain of spears)

An elaborate structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally

Similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words(ex: Do you like blue?)

Repetition of internal consonant sounds(ex: All mammals named Sam are clammy.)

Words spelled as they sound(ex: boom, moo, ding, )

Words that almost rhyme used to break repetition of conventional rhymes or because rappers cannot come up with something that works =p(ex: praise & ways, doubt & thought; because & was)

-patterns of rhythm in poetry are based on meter-measured in stressed or unstressed syllables

Study of meter in verse

-ignores convention of meter and rhythm-irregular length of time-irregular rhyming (but may rhyme....just not set scheme)

Unrhythmed verse that does have a consistent meter(ex: You stars that reign'd at my nativity,Whose influence hath allotted death and hell,Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mistInto entrails of yon labouring clouds)