Poetic Techniques

• A quatrain is a stanza of four lines with 2 lines rhyming and 2 lines not rhyming
• A couplet is a pair of rhyming verse lines
• Stressed syllables is the emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others
• An unstressed syllable is a part of a word that you say with less emphasis
• Iambic Pentameter is a rhythmic pattern that consists of 10 syllables per line with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables
• A consonant is a speech sound that is not a vowel
• Half rhyme is a type of rhyme formed by words that have similar sounds but do not technically rhyme
• Pararhyme is a partial rhyme between words with the same pattern of consonants but different vowels
• Lineation is how lines are divided.
• The volta (or turn) is a shift in tone, theme, or perspective that occurs midway through a sonnet.
• A dactyl is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
• Dactylic diameter is a poetic meter that consists of two dactyls.
• Anaphora is when a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
• Epistrophe is when a word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
• Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within close proximity.
• Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds within close proximity.
• The charge of the light brigade is written in dacytlic diameter
• Plosive sounds: b p d t k g
• Holophrasis 


  Where single words are used to express a whole idea
• plosive


  A consonant produced by stopping the airflow. - breaks the piece,quick paces