Lesson Skill: - Virginia

sound (assonance, consonance & alliteration, rhyme) rhythm (dramatic variations on iambic pentameter, the 5-beat line) enjambed or run-over lines vs. end-stopped lines. caesura. syntax. structure . diction; figures of speech. tone. argument. SOUND is used for dramatic effects in poetry, as well as to seduce us into the poem’s way of thinking and feeling. Often these effects work on us ... ................
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