ELA10
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
assonance
A dramatic speech uttered by one character speaking aloud while alone (or under the impression of being alone). The speaker reveals his or her inner thoughts to the audience through either direct address or self-communication.
soliloquy
“Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door"
Consonance
"praise, glorify, or honor"
exalt
"an oppressive power"
yoke
When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line.
when the reader or audience is aware of something that the characters are not aware of
dramatic irony
“Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore”
alliteration
"a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel"
knave
"a disorderly crowd of people"
rout
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words.
alliteration
words spoken to the audience by a character in a drama that are not supposed to be heard by the other characters onstage.
Aside
“To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!”
internal rhyme
"ask for or request earnestly"
beseech
"attentive consideration and thought"
cogitation
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words.
consonance
when the name or description of something implies the opposite of the truth
verbal irony
“From the molten-golden notes”
assonance
"someone who makes predictions of the future"
soothsayer
"submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior"
servile
When a poet creates a rhyme, but the two words do not rhyme exactly – they are merely similar.
slant rhyme
when something happens that is the reverse of what you expected
situational irony
“I sat upon a stone,
And found my life has gone.”
slant rhyme
"the appearance conveyed by a person’s face"
countenance
"make sense of; assign a meaning to"
construe