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.