English Mid-Term - Assonance- similar vowel sounds. (...

Assonance- similar vowel sounds. ( quarter/ California)
Consonance- similar consonance sound
Alliteration-device when first consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in words and
syllables.
Ballad- short poem that tells a simple story and was a repeated refrain.
Blank verse- unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Caesura- pause in a line of poetry, usually occurring near the middle.
Connotation- impression that a word gives beyond its defined meaning.
Couplet- two lines of poetry with the same rhyme and meter.
Denotation- definition of a word apart from the impressions.
Diction- selection and arrangement of words in a literacy work.
Elegy- lyrics poem that laments the death of a person.
Enjambment- running the sense and structure of a line of verse or a couplet into the
following verse/ couplet.
Free verse- lacks regular metrical rhyme patterns.
Half rhyme- appears at the ends of 2 or more verses have similar final consonants.