LITERARY

TERMS

ASSONANCE

The repetition of similar

vowel sounds

followed by different

consonant sounds

in words that are close

together

EXAMPLE

FEET

SWEEP

BALLAD

A SONGLIKE

POEM

THAT TELLS

A STORY

THE BALLAD

OF

JED CLAMPETT

 Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named

JedPoor mountaineer barely kept his family fed

Then one day he was shooting for some food,

And up through the ground come a bubbling crude

(Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea)

 

Well the first thing you know old Jed's a millionaire

Kin folk said Jed move away from thereSaid California is the place you oughta be

So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Beverly

(Hills that is, swimming pools, movie stars)

Well now it's time to say goodbye to Jed and all his kin

They would like to thank you folks for kindly dropping in

You're all invited back again to this localityTo have a heaping helping of their hospitality(Beverly Hillbillies, that's what they call 'em

now, Nice folks Y'all come back now, ya hear?)

BIOGRAPHY

The account of a person’s life written by another person.

The Gospel of Matthew

Blank Verse

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Say What?

Shakespeare is famous for iambic pentameter.

Oh Really? That makes it crystal clear!

• Unrhymed – lines do not rhyme

• Iambic Pentameter – a rhythm pattern

• Iambic – a metric foot with an

unstressed & a stressed syllable

daDUM

• Pentameter – five metric feet per line

It Looks Something Like This

But Soft! / What light / through yon/der win/dow breaks.

5 feetEach foot has a stressed &

unstressed syllableTotal of 10 syllables

Character

An individual in a story

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