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The Sound of Words

The Meanings of Words

Onomatopoeia

Repitition

Rhyme

Alliteration

Words that sound like their meaning Example: boom buzz crackle gurgle ,hiss, pop....

The purposeful re-use of the words and phrases for an effect. Example I was glad ; so very glad ,gald

The Repition of "glad" give the readers a sense of assurance

Definition of Rhyme: A rhyme is a repetition of silmilar sounds into or more words most often at the end of the lines in a (poem)

External Rhymes

Internal Rhymes

External Rhymes falls at the end of the lines Example : The rowdy dog barked all through the night and then came a lion which gave him a big fright

Night and Fright rhymes making an internal rhymes

Rhymes that occurs within a single line of a verse(line) Example :the cat jumped over the hat

"The cat "and" the Hat" rhymes making an internal rhyme.

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed newar each other ,usually on the same or adjacent lines . a some what looser definition is that it is use of the same consonantin any part of the adjacent words Examples :Fast and Furious

"Fast and Furious gives it a punching effect on the reader.

Irony

Simlie

Connotations

Symbolism

Dennotations

Personification

Metaphor

Irony is the opposite statement of what is expected

Dramatic

Verbal

Situational

The readers know but the characters do not

What is said is different than what is meant.

Something happens that we would't expect it to happen .Example : A fire station burns downs

As a fire station should be a place where fires would never take place due to the presence of firefighters .However , It broke fire making a sense of situational irony

A direct comparision using "like " or " as". Example : He is as dumb as an ox

it means that his intelligence level is being compared to an ox

An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in adddition to it's literal or primary meaning. Example :you are a dog

You are a dog means figuratively that you are morally detestableand ugly

a person, place or thing that represents an idea. Example: a small cross by the dangerous curve on the road reminded johnny's death

The literal or primary meaning of a word in contrast to the feeling or idea that the words suggest. Example: you are a dog

Its means that you are a literally a canine

Attributing a human like quality to an inanimated object. Example : The days crept slowly

The days is an inanimated object but it is given a human like quality which is crept, hence implying that the time is very slow

A direct comparision between 2 unlike things ,stating that one is the other or does the action (Similar like simile but it just do not have "like" or ' as"). Example : He is a Zero.

"he" is being comapred with "zero", which implies that he is a failure.