Sound and Grammatical Devices
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The document summarizes various literary devices used in poetry including rhyme schemes, sound devices, grammatical devices, and figures of speech. It discusses end rhymes, internal rhymes, slant rhyme, rich rhyme, eye rhymes, identical rhymes, alliterations, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, scansion, antecedent, main and subordinate clauses, ellipses, imperative sentences, modifiers, and balanced sentences.
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Sound and Grammatical Devices
- 1. Jillian Herrera Rogelio D. Lagunas
- 2. End Rhymes- The Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. rhyming words are By Robert Frost the last word on a line. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Sound Devices
- 3. Internal Rhymes- The Cloud By Percy Bysshe Shelly Rhyme words on the inside of a I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, line. From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the Sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. Sound Devices
- 4. Slant Rhyme- The Darking Thrush Share one by Thomas Hardy sound, such as a consonant or The land's sharp features seemed to be vowel sound. The Century's corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I. Sound Devices
- 5. Rich Rhyme- Using A First Attempt at Rhyme words that sound By Thomas Hood exactly the same. If I were used to writing verse, And I had a Muse not so perverse, But prompt at Fancy’s call to spring And carol like a bird in the Spring; Or like a Bee, in the summer time, The hums about a bed of thyme, And gathers honey and delights, For ev’ry blossom where it ‘lights.
- 6. Eye Rhymes- Look “Eye Rhyme” A Poem to Never Be Read as if they should Aloud rhyme, but don’t. By Vincent van Mechelen When I say to the aspiring sublime: "A waste of words is an abomination, Publish or Perish is not your situation," I alliterate and I rime.
- 7. Identical The Darking Thrush Rhymes- Using by Thomas Hardy the same word twice. The land's sharp features seemed to be The Century's corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I.
- 8. Alliterations are repetitions of the same sounds within a phrase. EX. Alligators are all about alliterations.
- 9. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within words within a phrase. Ex. A fleet of green geese.
- 10. Consonance is a repetition of final consonant sounds two or more times in a phrase. EX. Short and Sweet
- 11. A word that imitates a sound. EX. “Hiss,” hissed the snake.
- 12. A scansion marks the patterns of meters in a line. They are based on syllables.
- 14. The act of going before; Precedence For example, World war 1 was the antecedent to world war 2. Grammatical Devices
- 15. There are two types of clauses. Main (independent) and subordinate (dependent) clause. “I gave her my phone number but she didn’t call.” A main clause has a subject and a predicate and can be considered a simple sentence. Ex. I gave her my phone number A subordinate clause cannot be considered a sentence. Ex. she didn’t call
- 16. […] Ellipsis are handy when quoting lengthy material. They allow you to omit words and only quote what is most useful. Ellipsis can also be used in poetry to add greater meaning to the omitted words. Ex.
- 17. A sentence that expresses a demand and also gives instruction. Ex. “Write Mr. Arguelles’s essay!”
- 18. An optional element used in phrases clauses and sentences. They literally just make the sentence sound smoother. Adverbs and adjectives are primarily used as modifiers. However other parts of speech can also be used. Ex. Throw it hard against the wall. Ex. It was a creepy house. Ex. Then a couple cops showed up.
- 19. A balance of two or more similar words, phrases or clauses. It can improve writing style , readability and add depth to works. Ex. What you put in is what you get out. Ex. “I don’t want to live on in my work. I want to live on in my apartment. –Woody Allen
- 20. A sentence that consists of several subordinate clauses and modifiers leading up to the main idea which is not expressed until the very end of the sentence. It is the opposite of a run on sentence. Ex. Birds singing harmonically above, kids shouting mindlessly around, and screeching black burning pavement below has proven that summer is at long last here.