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Rhyme Schemes and Meter Flashcards

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  1. A pause or break in the middle of a metrical line is called what?

    Answer: Caesura

    A caesura is a deliberate pause within a line.

  2. Matching lyrical stress with the natural musical accent is called what?

    Answer: Prosody

    Prosody is the alignment of word stress with musical rhythm.

  3. Placing a strong syllable on a weak musical beat, creating rhythmic surprise, is called what?

    Answer: Syncopation

    Syncopation accents off-beats for rhythmic tension.

  4. A rhyme scheme where the second and fourth lines rhyme but the first and third do not (ABCB) is often used in what song form?

    Answer: The ballad stanza

    ABCB is the classic ballad stanza pattern.

  5. Forcing an unnatural word stress to fit the meter, like stressing 'a-BOVE' as 'A-bove', is a flaw known as what?

    Answer: Wrenched accent

    A wrenched accent distorts a word's natural stress to fit meter.

  6. In a limerick, lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme together while lines 3 and 4 form a separate rhyme. What scheme is this?

    Answer: AABBA

    The limerick uses an AABBA rhyme scheme.

  7. Rhyming a word with itself or a homophone, such as 'see' and 'sea', is called what?

    Answer: Identical rhyme

    Identical rhyme repeats the same sound, often via homophones.