Rhyme
• Occurs when the last vowel and consonant sounds of two words are identical.
ggaveave….s….saveavehhitit…s…sititwwalkalk….t….talkalk
•End Rhyme- Occurs at the end of a line of poetry.•Where Alph, the sacred river, ranran
Through caverns measureless to man.man.
•Internal Rhyme- Occurs within a line of poetry.•Once upon a midnight drearydreary while I pondered weak
and weary.weary.
Examples of Rhymes
Rhyme Scheme•The pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet. •Examples: •I love you, I do. (A)•When the rains start to fall, (B)•I’ll never be blue (A)•With you standing tall. (B)•The boy ate some pie (C)•He started to fly. (C)
Refrain
• A word, phrase, line, or group of lines that repeats in a poem.
• Sometimes called a chorus.
Couplet
• Two successive lines of poetry, usually of equal length and similar meter, with end-words that rhyme.
• Example: – And it grew both day and night, – Till it bore an apple bright.
•A stanza of four lines of verse usually with a rhyme scheme of ABAB.•Most common form of stanza in English.•Example: •Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles todayTomorrow will be dying.
Quatrain
Meter
• The measurement unit for rhythm
• Since the 1400's meter has tended to be measured by accented and unaccented syllables.
Alliteration
• The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
• Example: She sells seashells by the sea shore.
• The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds.
• A type of vowel rhyme• Example: Old age should burn
and rave at close of day;Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.
Assonance
Consonance
• The repetition of a consonant sound preceded by a different vowel sound.
• Found in Dr. Seuss books• Example: Clocks on fox tick. Clocks
on Knox tock. Six sick bricks tick. Six sick chicks tock.
• The use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they refer.
• Example: BAM, POW, DRIP, SIZZLE, DING
Onomatopoeia
•a reference to a person, object, event/historical event, or literary work.•Example (from Obama!)•"I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the Planet Earth.“
What allusion is he making?
Allusion