The document defines and provides examples of several types of rhyme schemes, including internal rhyme, masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme, perfect rhyme, slant rhyme, sight rhyme, single rhyme, double rhyme, and triple rhyme. It also discusses other literary devices such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, scansion, and grammatical terms including antecedent, clause, ellipsis, imperative, modifiers, parallel structure, and periodic sentence.

1. Sound
Devices
Jareinmy Feliz
Bernie Sobalvarro
Jose Hernandez
Period 1
April 18, 2012

2. Major Types of Rhyme
Internal Rhyme: A rhyme between words in the same line
Ex. “Now we had arranged, through notes exchanged”
“Each narrow cell in which we dwell.”
Masculine Rhyme: A rhyme of final stressed syllables
Ex. blow/flow,
confess/redress
Feminine Rhyme: A rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or
more unstressed syllables
Ex. stocking/shocking
glamorous/amorous

3. Major Types of Rhyme
Perfect Rhyme: Rhyme in which different consonants are followed by
identical vowel and consonant sounds
Ex. Moon/June
Moo/ Boo
Cool/ Tool
Slant Rhyme: A rhyme in which the sounds are only similar, not identical
Ex. Loads/lids
groaned/crooned
bodies/ladies
Sight Rhyme: Agreement in spelling, but not in sound, of the ends of
words or of lines of verse
Ex. Slaughter/Laughter.
Have/Grave
Lint /Pint

4. Major Types of Rhyme
Single Rhyme: A rhyme in which only the last sylla ble rhymes
Ex. Crime/Grime
Seam/Cream
Hind/Grind
Double Rhyme: A feminine rhyme involving one stressed and one unstressed
syllable in each rhyming line
Ex. Ended/Blended
Regal/Eagle
Tumor/ Rumor
Triple Rhyme: A feminine rhyme involving one stressed and two unstressed
syllables in each rhyming line
Ex. Antelope/Cantaloupe
Greenery/Scenery
Frightening/ Brightening

5. Alliteration
• Definition: Examples:
The occurrence of the same Alice’s aunt ate apples and
letter or sound at the acorns around August.
beginning of adjacent or
closely connected words. Becky’s beagle barked and
bayed, becoming
bothersome for Billy.
Carrie’s cat clawed her
couch, creating chaos.

6. Assonance
• Definition: Examples:
“Hear the mellow wedding
Rhyme in which the same bells”
vowel sounds are used with
different consonants. “Fleet feet sweep by
sleeping geese”
“Hear the lark and harden
to the barking of the dark
fox gone to ground”

7. Consonance
• Definition: Examples:
“He struck a streak of bad
luck”
Rhyme involving the use of
the repetition of consonants “To trust those tables that
receive thee more”
“all mammals named Sam
are clammy”

8. Onomatopoeia
• Definition: Examples:
The formation of a word by Mr. Arguelles is Cuckoo.
imitation of a sound made by
or associated with its Cats say: Meow.
referent.
Boom!

9. Scansion
• Definition: Examples:
The graphic ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ /
representation, indicated by The rain set early in tonight.
marked accents, feet, etc., of
the rhythm of a line or lines
of verse. Iamb ˘/ create
Trochee /˘ hero
Anapest ˘˘/ overdue
Dactyl /˘˘ catalyst

10. Gramatical
Terms

11. Antecedent
• Definition: Example:
a word, phrase, or In Jane lost a glove and
clause, usually a she can't find it, Jane is
substantive, that is replaced the antecedent of she
by a pronoun or other and glove is the
substitute later, or antecedent of it.
occasionally earlier, in the
same or in another, usually
subsequent, sentence.

12. Clause
• Definition: Example:
"Life moves pretty fast. If
A group of words in a
you don't stop and look
sentence that contains a
around once in a
subject and predicate.
while, you could miss it."

13. Ellipsis
• Definition: Examples:
I like to interview people
The omission from a
sitting down.
sentence or other
construction of one or more
The omission of who
words that would complete
are, while I am, or while
or clarify the construction.
we are after the word
interview is an Ellipsis.
Ben ate apples, and Judy
peaches.
The word ate is omited.

14. Imperative
• Definition: Examples:
COME HERE!
Denoting the mood of a
verb that expresses a
GO!
command or exhortation.
STOP!

15. Modifiers
• Definition: Examples:
A word, phrase, or clause "Louis, I think this is the
that functions as an beginning of a beautiful
adjective or adverb to limit friendship.“
or qualify the meaning of
another word or word "I'm an excellent
group. housekeeper.”

16. Parallel Structure
(Paralellism)
• Definition: Examples:
WRONG: Your new training
Two or more program was stimulating and
words, phrases, or clauses a challenge.
that are similar in length (Adjective and noun.)
and grammatical form. (a
noun is listed with other RIGHT: Your new training
nouns, words ending with - program was stimulating and
ing form with other -ing challenging.
words, and so on. (Two adjectives.)

17. Periodic Sentence
• Definition: Examples:
"And though I have the gift
A long and frequently of prophecy, and
involved sentence, marked understand all
by suspended syntax, in mysteries, and all
which the sense is not knowledge; and though I
completed until the final have all faith, so that I
word--usually with an could remove
emphatic climax. mountains, and have not
charity, I am nothing."

18. The End
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