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English Terminology (Language (Sound devices (Sibilance (Repetition of…

- - - - Tercet (3)
      - Couplet (2)
      - Quatrain (4)
      - Cinquain (5)
      - Sextain (6)
      - Octave (8)
    - - Sestet
        
        Last 6 lines in a sonnet (Italian sonnet)
      - Volta
        
        Turning point in a sonnet
    - - Iamb
        
        A type metrical foot consisting of a short beat followed by a long beat ("attempt")
        
        Iambic pentameter
        
        A metre consisting of 5 iambic feet ( sounds like a heartbeat)
      - tetrameter
        
        A metre consisting of 4 feet
      - Trimeter
        
        A metre consisting of 3 feet
      - Trochaic
      - Foot
        
        A unit of rhythm in a metrical line, a combination of an unstressed and stressed sound
        
        Types of feet
        
        Trochee
        
        Metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (opposite of an iamb)
        
        "garden"
        
        Anapest
        
        Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable
        
        "underfoot"
        
        Dactyl
        
        one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
        
        "murmuring"
        
        Spondee
        
        Metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by another stressed syllable
        
        Amphibrach
        
        unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed one, followed by an unstressed one (rare)
        
        Pyrric
        
        Two unstressed syllables (not common)
      - Dimeter
        
        A metre consisting of 2 feet
      - Hexameter
        
        A metre consisting of 6 feet
      - Pentameter
        
        A metre consisting of 5 feet
      - Scansion
        
        Term for analysing a poem's metre
      - Metrical variation
        
        Using different metres in a poem for effect
    - - Full rhyme
        
        Stressed vowels and following consonantsare identical, but consonants preceding rhyming vowels are different
        
        "Chain" "brain"
      - Half rhyme
        
        Final consonant is the same but the final vowel does not rhyme
        
        Aka
        
        Slant rhyme
        
        Imperfect rhyme
        
        Oblique rhyme
      - Masculine rhyme
        
        Where only a single syllable rhymes, often at end of lines
      - Feminine rhyme
        
        Start of word doesn't rhyme but latter syllables do, multiple syllables
        
        Also known as double rhyme/triple rhyme
      - Eye-rhyme
        
        Rhyme based on sight(and the spelling) not sound
        
        "Love" and "Move"
      - End rhyme
        
        Rhyme occurs at the end of lines
      - Internal rhyme
        
        Rhyme occurs in the middle portion of the line (can be across lines or within one line)
      - Macaronic rhyme
        
        Rhyming in a different language
      - Para-rhyme
        
        Where the first and last consonants are similr but the vowel doesn't rhyme
        
        "rod" and "red"
  - - - Changing the order of words in a sentence
    - - Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
    - - Inverting of normal sentence structure for poetic effect
- - - - Petrarchan sonnet
    - - A novel written as a series of documents
        
        Eg: letters
- - - - Repetition of 's' sounds
  - - - Grouping words together baseed on their denotation
        
        "neighbour" and "neighbourhood"
    - - Grouping words together based on their meaning (the interpretatitons)
  - - - "the story book, a dusty tome...."
      - First noun followed by a comma
  - - - "Giant prawn"
  - - - "could cut the tension with a knife"
      - "silence as thick as a forest"
      - "Taste the rainbow"
  - - - 'Suits' meaning businessmen
      - 'No. 10' meaning the Prime Minister
      - 'America' meaning United States of America
  - - - Something understood by the audience but not the characters
  - - - Plant
        
        Suitable target for crime
      - Younker
        
        Young one
      - Prig
        
        Pickpocket, thief
      - Workmen
        
        Thieves
      - Togs
        
        Clothes
      - To grab
        
        To arrest
      - Downy
        
        Knowing
      - Gallows
        
        Person deserving to be hanged
      - Kinchin
        
        Child
      - Lay
        
        Scheme, job
      - Lucky
        
        To escape
      - Morrice!
        
        Get a move on!