ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Blank Verse, Terminal Punctuation, Free Verse

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1A03
• Professor: Eugenia Zuroski- Jenkins

Document Summary

(definitions taken from representative poetry online"s glossary of poetic terms) Accent (latin, song added to speech"): a stressed syllable or ictus. These alternate with unstressed syllables or slacks to produce a theoretical metrical pattern termed the rhythm that often, but not always, matches how the line would be sounded in conversation. Prominence can be achieved by pitch (tone), loudness or impact (stress), or length. Alliteration: using the same consonant to start two or more stressed words or syllables in a phrase or verse line, or using a series of vowels to begin such words or syllables in sequence. Alliteration need not re-use all initial consonants: words like train and terrific alliterate. Assonance (latin, to answer with the same sound"): the rhyming of a word with another in one or more of their accented vowels, but not in their consonants; sometimes called vowel rhyme.