- of words, sounds and phrases
- refrain
Rhythm and Meter
- meter: a regular and alternating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
- rhythm: a pattern of regularly reccuring sounds, accents or movement.
- scansion: the patterns of accents and meter
Alliteration
- the occurance of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Assonance
- similarity of vowel sounds in the stressed syllable of two or more words, when the consonants sounds are different
Consonance
- the repitition of the same consonants sounds with different vowels
Onomatopeia
- the formation of words that imitate the sounds they describe