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1
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rhyme

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the repetition of identical or similar sounds, usually at the end of poetic lines

2
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alliteration

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the repetition of the opening sounds (first letter) of words

e.g. Red Riding Hood

3
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rhyme scheme

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the ordered pattern of end-rhymes across a poem

they might follow a conventional format (sonnet rhyme scheme) or a poet’s own invention

4
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Perfect rhyme

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when the sound of two words match exactly, usually by repeating the main stressed vowel and any consonants that follow it

5
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internal rhyme

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the repetition of sounds within a line of verse

e.g. and priests in black gowns were walking their rounds

6
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Imperfect rhyme or slant rhyme

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constructions where the rhymes are only partial or slight correspondences of sound because only the vowel or the consonant sounds are repeated

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Perfect Rhyme types (3)

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triple rhyme

  • rhymes involving three syllables
  • e.g. greenery and scenery

masculine rhyme

  • rhymes of one stressed syllable
  • e.g. reach and speech

feminine rhyme

  • rhymes of two syllables that end on an unstressed note
  • e.g. yellow and fellow
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Eye Rhyme

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rhymes that only exist to the eye, because the spelling rather than the sound chimes.

Points towards a print culture as the writer expects his poem to be printed so that the eye rhyme is seen

e.g. Christ - mist

9
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Imperfect rhyme types (3)

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​consonance

  1. when only the final consonant sounds correspond
  2. e.g. check - pluck

assonance

  1. when only the internal vowel sounds correspond
  2. e.g. deep - meat

pararhyme

  1. when the consonant order is repeated, but the vowels differ
  2. flesh - flash or bid - bad
10
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onomatopoeia

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when a word’s sound replicates or evokes the thing or action it describes

e.g. bang