Topics: Entertainment › Music
Type: Rhetorical Essays
Sample donated: Christine Reynolds
Last updated: December 16, 2019
rhythm
the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music or poetry according to the combinations of stressed and unstressed sounds
meter
the ‘beat’ of a poem or song; a unit of stressed and unstressed sounds
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external or end rhyme
Rhyme at the end of lines in a series of lines
internal rhyme
a rhyme between words in the same line
near rhyme
sounds are almost but not exactly alike
rhyme scheme
a pattern of rhyme in a stanza that is repeated in each stanza, often with the same pattern of rhythm
parallelism/parallel contruction
repetition of a sentence or word structure to determine word choice
refrain
a phrase or verse repeated at intervals in a song or poem
unrhymed
poetry which the lines/words do not rhyme
anaphora
the use of the same word or phrase at the beginnings of several successive clauses, sentences, lines, or stanzas usually for emphasis or rhetorical effect, eg.
“I have a dream…
…
” in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech
alliteration
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
