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Craft Terms
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Join means to connect or bring together two or more parts; in poetry, it can suggest the linking of lines, images, or ideas within a composed whole.

Detailed Definition
In literal use, join refers to the act of making separate things one. In poetry, it is central to the way syntax, rhyme, and repetition connect elements across a poem. It fits craft terms because poems are shaped through acts of joining.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may join disparate images through a single metaphor, uniting nature and human emotion; Marriage poems often use the image of joining hands to symbolize lifelong commitment; Enjambment joins one line to the next without pause, creating continuous momentum; A poet describing carpentry might use joining wood as metaphor for reconciling divided relationships; Joined voices in a choral poem can represent communal grief or celebration; A poet might join fragments of myth and personal history into a single hybrid narrative.
Additional Notes
Join is among the most fundamental craft terms describing connection, whether between lines, images, ideas, or people, and serves as a foundational concept for understanding more specific craft terms like bind, fuse, and splice; instructors often use join to introduce students to the broader category of connective craft terms, discussing how the specific verb a poet or critic chooses to describe a connection, whether gentle, forceful, or permanent, shapes the reader's understanding of that relationship's nature.
Also Known As
connect unite link attach assemble fasten splice Seam
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