| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) |
accent
,
emphasis
,
stress
|
| syllable, of a stressed |
accented
,
nuclear
,
tonic
|
| use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
alliteration
,
beginning rhyme
,
head rhyme
,
initial rhyme
|
| poetic metrical foot with middle syllable of three accented |
amphibrach
|
| poetic metrical foot with two short followed by one long syllable |
anapest
|
| three-syllable foot |
anapest
|
| syllable second to last |
antepenult
|
| syllable, third from last in word |
antepenult
|
| 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end |
antepenult
,
antepenultima
,
antepenultimate
|
| gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' |
aphesis
|
| syllable deleted |
apocope
|
| syllable, short |
apocope
,
breve
,
elision
,
mora
,
systole
|
| syllable, accented |
arsis
|
| syllable, unaccented |
atonic
|
| syllable deleted at end |
catalectic
|
| (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot |
catalectic
|
| absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse |
catalexis
|
| syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization |
do
,
doh
,
ut
|
| two-syllable rhyme |
double rhyme
|
| syllable, omission of unstressed |
elision
|
