ENGL 364 Lecture Notes - Feminine Rhyme, Masculine Rhyme, Eye Rhyme
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Human nature to like rhythm (weheartit) - sensual feeling, sex, etc. Poetry: understand what is being said (on a literal sense, describe how the poem functions, interpretation. Substitution of one thing by something connected to it. Two things are alike in some important way. Simile - a type of metaphor that uses like or as . Tenor - the way they are alike. Vehicle - thing that is being used. Basic level observations: what is the poem actually saying, how is the poem saying it, figures of speech. 1 couplet: monometer, dimeter, trimeter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter. Broken rhyme: one word with two or more words. Pararhyme/consonant rhyme: rhyming with similar consonants, different vowels. Vowel/consonant rhyme: rhyming with similar vowels, different consonants. Masculine rhyme: one-syllable rhyme, rhyme occurs on the nal ( rst) stressed syllables. Feminine rhyme: two or more syllables, rhyme is on the second stressed syllable. Wrenched rhyme: rhyming a stressed syllable with an unstressed syllable.