ENGL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Caesura, Assonance, Anapaest
13 Jun 2016
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Alliteration: repetition of a speech sound, usually to consonants, usually made emphatic because it either begins a word or stresses a syllable within the word. In old english alliterative meter, alliteration organized the verses. Each verse was divided into two half lines of two strong stresses, with a pause in between caesura. In a somer seson, when soft was the sonne. Now, alliteration is used only for special stylistic effects, to reinforce meaning, link related words. Helps with enunciation too or provide tone. Consonance is repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants. Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar vowels in a sequence of nearby words. Thou still unravished bride of quietness, thou foster child of silence and slow time Meter: recurrence, in regular units, of a prominent feature in the sequence of speech sounds of a language. Established by the relative duration of the utterance of a syllable.
