Vocabulary: Poetry analysis: meter, imagery, and sound devices

English · C2 · Lesson 40 · 20 words

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cadence

noun

informal conversational language

juxtapose

verb

Place side by side for contrast

evocative

adjective

Evoking strong feelings or memories

visceral

adjective

visceral

scansion

noun

Metrical analysis of verse

caesura

noun

Pause or break in a line of poetry

synecdoche

noun

Figure of speech using part for whole

euphonious

adjective

Pleasing or harmonious to the ear

enjambment

noun

Running lines into next line without pause

trochee

noun

Metrical foot with stressed then unstressed syllable

assonance

noun

# Simple English Synonyms/Definitions

personify

verb

repetition of vowel sounds

dactylic

adjective

give human qualities to something

consonance

noun

relating to a metrical pattern of three syllables

spondee

noun

repetition of consonant sounds

onomatopoeia

noun

metrical unit of two stressed syllables

mellifluous

adjective

words that imitate sounds

chiasmus

noun

sweet-sounding

ethereal

adjective

reversal of grammatical structures for effect

apostrophe

noun

light and airy