Labels:text | screenshot | font | black and white | number | document OCR: Accent - Special emphasis given to a syllable in pronunciation as a result of pitch, loudness, duration, and timbre. Usually used synonymously with stress. Accentual meter - A meter in which only the number of accents is counted. Accentual-syllabic meter - Ameter in which there is a correspondence between the number of accents and the number of syllables, either two syllables for every accent dactylic). (as in iambic and trochaic) or three syllables for every accent (as in anapestic and Alexandrine - A line of iambic hexameter. Alliteration - The repetition of consonant sounds. Anapest - A three-syllable poetic foot accented on the last syllable. Assonance - The repetition of the same vowel sound. Blank verse - Unthymed iambic pentameter. Caesura - An intemal pause in a line, usualy but not necessarily marked off by punctuation, which does not affect the meter. Couplet - A pair of lines, usually rhymed and usually having the same meter. Dactyl - A three-syllable poetic foot accented on the first syllable. Dimeter - A line of two feet. End-stopped line - A line followed by a long pause, usually marked off by punctuation. Enjambment - The flowing of the sense from one line into the next without interruption; the use of run-on lines. Foot - A metrical unit containing one stressed syllable and usually one or two unstressed Free verse - Rhythmical but nonmetrical lines used as a medium for poetry. syllables. Heroic couplet - A rhyming iambic pentameter couplet. Heptameter - A line of seven feet. Hexameter - A line of six feet. lamb - A two-syllable poetic foot accented on the second syllable. Meter - An ordered pattem of accents, rhythm that can be measured. Monosyllabic foot - A poetic foot containing one syllable only. Octameter - A line of eight feet. Onomatopoeia - The use of words whose sounds imitate their meaning, as hiss, bang, buzz. Pentameter - A line of five feet. Pyrrhic - A substitute poetic foot consisting of two unstressed syllables, always followed Scansion - The analysis of meter, usually with the aid of some graphic system of by a spondee. notation. Spondee - A two-syllable substitute poetic foot in which both syllables are accented but the accent is conceived of as being divided between the two syllables. Stanza - A repeated unit of lines with a prescribed meter and rhyme scheme. Syllabic meter - A form of meter in which syllables only are counted; typical of Japanese verse, as in the haiku, and occasionally used by English and American Tetrameter - A line of four feet. poets. Trimeter - A line of three feet. Trochee - A two-syllable poetic foot accented on the first syllable.
