PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Lyric Poetry, Narrative Poetry, English Poetry
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Alliteration: the repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line. Alliteration need not reuse all initial consonants; pizza and place alliterate. Example: we saw the sea sound sing, we heard the salt sheet tell, from dylan thomas"s lie. Apostrophe: an address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present. In his holy sonnet death, be not proud, john donne denies death"s power by directly admonishing it. Blank verse: unrhyming iambic pentameter, also called heroic verse. This 10-syllable line is the predominant rhythm of traditional english dramatic and epic poetry, as it is considered the closest to english speech patterns. Free verse: nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech. A regular pattern of sound or rhythm may emerge in free-verse lines, but the poet does not adhere to a metrical plan in their composition.
