Vocabulary 7

Academic Vocabulary
February 2, 2016
slant rhyme (n.)
words that almost rhyme
ex.
safer/paper young/song pen/lend
This little piggy went to market.
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy had roast beef.
This little piggy had none.
alliteration (n.)
a repeated consonant sound
ex.
Dunkin' Donuts, Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew
The furrow followed free.
We were the first who ever burst
Into that silent sea.
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner")
assonance (n.)
a repeated vowel sound within words
ex.
I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and
restless.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once, I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
William Wadsworth, "Daffodils"
eye rhyme (n.)
words that only look like they should
rhyme but don't
ex.
love/move wall/shall cough/though
"Come live with me and be my love
And we will all the pleasures prove"
Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate
Shepherd to His Love"
meter (n.)
a unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern
of beats or accents. Also known as a
"foot." Each foot has two to three
syllables.
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