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  2. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    End rhyme (aka tail rhyme): a rhyme occurring in the terminating word or syllable of one line in a poem with that of another line, as opposed to internal rhyme. End-stopping line; Enjambment: incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation.

  3. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    An acatalectic line of verse is one having the metrically complete number of syllables in the final foot. [2] accent Any noun used to describe the stress put on a certain syllable while speaking a word. For example, there has been disagreement over the pronunciation of "Abora" in line 41 of "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. According to ...

  4. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z). [ 1 ] The definitive visualisation of all 118 elements is the periodic table of the elements , whose history along the principles of the periodic law was one of the founding ...

  5. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    These phonetic elements may be used on their own (to represent, for example, grammatical inflections or foreign words), or may serve as phonetic complements to a logogram (used to specify the sound of a logogram that might otherwise represent more than one word). In the case of Chinese, the phonetic element is built into the logogram itself; in ...

  6. Talk:Syllable - Wikipedia

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    Stress in Latin is determined by syllable length, with no distiction between syllables having one or more coda(e) and syllables just having a long nucleus. E.g. laudāre and monēre are both stressed on the last but one syllable, even though both -dā-and -nē-have no coda. --FAeR 16:16, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  7. Sonority sequencing principle - Wikipedia

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    A good example for the SSP in English is the one-syllable word trust: The first consonant in the syllable onset is t, which is a stop, the lowest on the sonority scale; next is r, a liquid which is more sonorous, then we have the vowel u / ʌ / – the sonority peak; next, in the syllable coda, is s, a sibilant, and last is another stop, t.

  8. 135 one-syllable girl names to consider for your daughter - AOL

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    Top 135 one-syllable girl names for babies and the reason why syllables in names are important. ... Some parents choose one-syllable names because they want a full name that has a certain rhythm ...

  9. Syllable - Wikipedia

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    The first syllable of a word is the initial syllable and the last syllable is the final syllable. In languages accented on one of the last three syllables, the last syllable is called the ultima, the next-to-last is called the penult, and the third syllable from the end is called the