1. Vocabulary Brian Miller Erica Johns

2. Rhyme Rhyme is the repetition in two or more nearby words of the last stressed vowel and all the syllables that follow it.

3. End Rhyme End Rhyme Most rhymes occur at the end of the poetic line, the term for which is end rhyme. ◦The rhyme may consist of only one syllable, or it may have multiple syllables.  ex: Duck and Truck- one, Funny and Bunny- multiple.

4. End Rhymes Cont’d End Rhymes Cont’d Rhymes that end on a stressed syllable are called masculine and rhymes that end on an unstressed syllable are called feminine. ◦ex: fond and pond are masculine, while attention and dimension are feminine.

5. Internal Rhyme Rhymes may occur within a line of poetry rather than at the end, this is called internal rhyme ◦Ex: And binding with briars my joys and desires. From “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

6. Rhyme Scheme In scanning a poem, rhymes are marked with letters of the alphabet, with the first rhyme designated as A, the second B, etc. ◦The pattern of recurrences is called a rhyme scheme. ◦Some stanzaic patterns are identified by particular rhymes schemes  Ex: Sonnet, Couplet, and Ballad Meter

7. Perfect and Imperfect Rhyme When the rhyming sounds match exactly, the rhyme is called perfect. ◦An alternative form is eye rhyme, in which words look on the page like perfect rhymes but are pronounced differently.  Ex: look and book are perfect while, cover and over are classified as eye rhyme.

8. Cont’d Rhymes may also be partial rather than perfect, varying the corresponding vowel sounds and/or the consonant sounds. This can be classified as imperfect, half, off, or slant rhyme.