Rhythm
Define strict rhyme
When words share the same nucleus and coda.
What is a foot?
What is alternate rhyme?
ABAB
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's Day?"
Iambic Pentameter
What does Mrs. Mallard really die from in "The Story of An Hour?"
What is alliteration?
When the onset of given words are the same.
Ex: Super shiny star.
What is trimeter?
3 metrical feet in each line
What is coupled rhyme?
AA BB CC
"'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house"
Anapestic Tetrameter
What are long poems about heroes called?
Epics
What is iamb?
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
What is a free verse poem?
A poem with no set meter or rhyme scheme
What is monorhyme?
AAAA
"Hickory, dickory, dock"
Dactylic Trimeter
How do the Panchatantra and Aesop's Fables represent animals?
They anthropomorphize them.
What do linguists use in order to form a script to represent the way a word is made of sounds?
Phonetic structure [fɒˈnɛtɪk ˈstrʌktʃər].
Homer's work is written in what kind of meter and feet?
Dactylic Hexameter
What is assonance?
When the nucleus is the same but the coda is different.
"Bent, but not broken, by age was the form of the notary public"
Dactylic Hexameter
What kind of character archetype do the Joker, Megamind, and Deadpool all fall under?
Anti-hero
What is dactyl?
A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
What meter are Shakespeare's plays in?
Iambic pentameter
What is consonance?
When the coda is the same but the nucleus is different
"And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting"
Trochaic Octometer
Who wrote "Rappcaccini's Daughter?"
Nathaniel Hawthorne