Rhyme comes in several forms:
End rhyme: Rhymes that occur at the end of lines
Internal rhyme: Rhymes within the same line or in the middle of different lines.
Perfect rhyme: Words that match exactly in sound, like “cat” and “hat.”
Imperfect rhyme: Also known as slant rhyme, it occurs when sounds are similar but not identical, like “love” and “move.”
Eye rhyme: Words that look as if they should rhyme but do not when pronounced, such as “love” and “prove.”
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There are three types of internal rhyme:
- Rhyme within the same line: Words rhyme within a single line, as in Poe’s “Annabel Lee”: “For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams/Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;”
- Rhyme in the middle of consecutive lines: Rhymes appear in the middle of two separate lines, like in Shel Silverstein’s “Snowball”: “I thought I’d keep it as a pet, / And let it sleep with me.”
- Rhyme at the end and middle: A word at the end of the line rhymes with a word in the middle of the next line. For example, “The snowflakes are dancing, floating, and falling. / The church bells are calling, but I will not go.”
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Antonomasia is when a title or epithet (descriptive phrase) takes the place of a proper noun (e.g., “The Bard” for Shakespeare). This is considered a type of metonymy, where a word is replaced by a closely associated word.
Antonomasia can also work in the opposite direction, where a proper name is substituted for a more general term (e.g., “a Scrooge” for a greedy person).
Some examples of antonomasia are:
- “The King” for Elvis Presley
- “The Boss” for Bruce Springsteen
- “The Boy Who Lived” for Harry Potter
- “The Queen of Soul” for Aretha Franklin
- “The Big Easy” for New Orleans
- “The Windy City” for Chicago
- “The Dark Knight” for Batman
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Many words can create an end rhyme with shaking. Perfect end rhymes include:
- aching
- breaking
- taking
- making
- baking
Slant rhymes or imperfect end rhymes have similar but not identical ending sounds. Imperfect rhymes include:
In end rhyme, the rhyming words are placed at the end of their respective lines, regardless of whether they form perfect or imperfect rhymes.
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Many words can create an end rhyme with sky. For example: shy, buy, cry, defy, thigh, sigh, and pie. To form an end rhyme, the two words need to appear at the end of their respective lines.
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A rhyme at the end of a sentence is called end rhyme. It is the most common type of rhyme, and we encounter it in poetry, songs, and nursery rhymes. This famous line from Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss includes an example of end rhyme:
“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”
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The following lines from Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare contain end rhyme:
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head”
The word pairs sun/dun and red/head are examples of end rhymes.
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Perfect rhyme (or true rhyme) occurs when the stressed syllables (and any following syllables) of two words are the same, but the onset of the syllables is different. Examples include:
- do – to – moo – chew
- diner – liner – miner
- hot – allot – pot – spot
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Aposiopesis is the sudden, deliberate breaking off of a sentence in order to leave it incomplete (e.g., “Why, I oughta …”). It is a figure of speech that is used in both literature and everyday speech. Aposiopesis is typically indicated with either an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).
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The line “Tis deepest winter in Lord Timon’s purse; that is, one may reach deep enough, and find little” from Timon of Athens by Shakespeare is an example of catachresis.
It describes Lord Timon’s purse as experiencing the “deepest winter, ” linking financial emptiness to a seasonal concept. This unconventional metaphor highlights the severity of Timon’s financial ruin, emphasizing how empty his purse truly is.
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