
- •Graphical and Phonetic Stylistic Devices
- •Items for discussion:
- •The notion of stylistic devices:
- •What terms are used to denote particular means by which utterances выражение are foregrounded актуализировать?
- •What is the difference between the original (genuine) and the hackneyed (trite) sd?
- •How are stylistic devices classified on different levels?
- •2. Graphical stylistic devices:
- •2) What is graphon?
- •3) What types and functions of graphon do you know?
- •5) What is a variant of alliteration?
- •What is rhythm?
- •8) What is rhyme?
- •9) What types of rhyme are distinguished?
- •1. Indicate the effect of the following cases of alliteration.
- •2. Certain combinations of letters have particular sound associations in English. Read the following words and say what they are associated with for you. Give examples of similar words.
- •3. State the function of the onomatopoeia.
- •4. Can you guess the meanings of the underlined words from their sounds?
- •5. Think of the causes originating graphon (young age, defect of speech, lack of education, affectation, carelessness, etc)
- •5. Think of the causes originating graphon (young age, defect of speech, lack of education, affectation, carelessness, etc)
5) What is a variant of alliteration?
alliteration or head rhyme
What is rhythm?
-It a regularly recurring units intended to be grasped as a definite periodicity. One more feature of verse from poiseThere are exist different types of rhythm:
trochee
iambus
dactyl
amphibrach
anapaest
7) What oppositions does rhythm in language demand требование? . Rhythm in language demands opposition alternates long – short, stressed – unstressed, narrow – broad.
8) What is rhyme?
Rhyme is the repetition of identical o similar terminal sounds, chaining two or more lines of a poem. Rhyming words are generally placed at a regular distance frm a=each other. Rhyme has several functions.
It adds a musical quality to the poem
It makes the poem easier to remember
It effects the pace and town of the poem
9) What types of rhyme are distinguished?
End Rhymes Rhyming of the final words of lines in a poem. The following, for example, is from Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” :
Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground
Internal Rhymes Rhyming of two words within the same line of poetry. The following, for example, is from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” :
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
Slant Rhymes (sometimes called imperfect, partial, near, oblique, off etc.) Rhyme in which two words share just a vowel sound (assonance – e.g. “heart” and “star”) or in which they share just a consonant sound (consonance – e.g. “milk” and “walk”). Slant rhyme is a technique perhaps more in tune with the uncertainties of the modern age than strong rhyme. The following example is also from Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” :
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun
Rich Rhymes Rhyme using two different words that happen to sound the same (i.e. homonyms) – for example “raise” and “raze”. The following example – a triple rich rhyme – is from Thomas Hood’s” A First Attempt in Rhyme” :
Partake the fire divine that burns, In Milton, Pope, and Scottish Burns, Who sang his native braes and burns.
Eye Rhymes Rhyme on words that look the same but which are actually pronounced differently – for example “bough” and “rough”. The opening four lines of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, for example, go :
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Here, “temperate” and “date” look as though they rhyme, but few readers would pronounce “temperate” so that they did. Beware that pronunciations can drift over time and that rhymes can end up as eye rhymes when they were originally full (and vice versa).
Identical Rhymes Simply using the same word twice. An example is in (some versions of) Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could not Stop for Death” :
We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground— The Roof was scarcely visible— The Cornice—in the Ground—
It’s clear there is often a certain amount of overlap between rhyme and other poetical devices such as assonance – subjects to be covered in future poetry writing tips.
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