There are four general categories of mnemonic devices: new words, creative sentences, rhymes and songs, and special systems (loci and peg). New Words: Good examples of these are acronyms. Acronyms are words created by the initial letters of a series of words; such as NASA (which is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Roy G. ... Rhymes and Songs: These are the most common mnemonic devices used. ... There are also alphabet ones in which words rhyme with the letter. ...

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On the street corners and in the parks, young men and women battled through freestyle rhymes and dance moves. ... Rap artists such as U.G.K and Busta Rhymes have a lower pitch than some other artists. Timbre is the characteristic quality of a specific sound; just as, Stevie Wonder, and Pavorotti are both tenors, Busta Rhymes and U.G.K both rap in the same pitch. ... This style is not found in a lot of rap music; however, Bone Thugs in Harmony have mastered the art of combining harmony and spoken words. ... Or as a use of variation, they will repeat words to add a different color to the piece. ...

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Emily Dickinson's Translation of Christian Words In Emily Dickinson's poems, the most sacred figures and words Protestant-Calvinist church tend to symbolize the exact opposite of the intended meaning and challenge its conformity to religion. The powerful connotations of words like Redemption; images of baptism and crucifixion; the theological and cultural ideals of Christian faith and sacrifice "all are recast to serve her revolutionary poetics. ... Dickinson's approach to translating the language, the "tunes,"" of the church, of nature is specified by the term "Keyless...

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Rhyme Do the poems rhyme? Rhyme can carry a poem along. But using approximate rhymes or carefully putting together words that harmonise with each other, without rhyming, can also get the same result. ... Words Poets choose words carefully. ... Do the poets use long words or short words or a mixture of both? ...

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To My Books is structured into three quatrains and a rhyming couplet and is written in iambic pentameter. ... The rhyming pattern is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. ... Norton talks directly to the books: "Let me return to you", and uses gentle words such as: "tranquil" "friendly" and "musing". Norton also euphemises negative words such as: "unripe" and "inconstant". ... Norton creates this tone through her use of rhyme and punctuation, which is used to reduce the tempo creating a languescent response, and her gentle use of diction where personification and words such as: "tranquil" and "musings" produce ...

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The sequence of the words may not make the meter of each verse so instead of maintaining the meter I choose to try and maintain the rhyme scheme, since rhyming in English is not done by letters, like in Spanish, but by pronunciation, it is a difficult task to find a rhyme and try and maintain the sense of the words and fragments of each verse. ... In doing so he demonstrates his ability to write without effort, he demonstrates his control over words, rhythm, flow and rhyme. The work of translating the poem, took me a while, since I had to look real hard inside my head for words to rhyme and...

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Rhyme Keats used much rhyme in "Ode on a Grecian Urn." ... The first and the fifth stanzas have the same rhyme scheme, ending respectively with the rhyme words, "quietness/ time/ express/ rhyme/ shape/ both/ Arcady/ loath/ escape/ ecstasy" and "brede/ overwrought/ weed/ thought/ Pastoral / waste/ woe/ say'st/ all/ know." The third and fourth stanzas also have the same rhyme scheme, ending respectively with the rhyme words "unheard/ on/ endeared/ tone/ leave/ bare/ kiss/ grieve/ bliss/ fair" and "shed/ adieu/ unwearied/ new/ love/ enjoyed/ young/ abov...

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The main rhyme scheme in this poem is AABB with end-rhymes, the ends of each couplet rhyme with each other. The only exception to this is where two eye rhymes are included in the poem. ... The other eye rhyme is in the first couplet of the final stanza: "dark" and "work" "Ibid., p. 156" look as though they would rhyme, however, they do not. The last type of rhyme is an internal rhyme that is included in the last line of the first stanza. ... ," "Ibid., p. 156" and the repetition of "s" words in the last line. ...

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The poem has four stanzas of four lines each with the end words rhyming with every other line. This rhyme scheme is called perfect rhyme, which means the end sounds correspond with each other perfectly. This poem also uses imagery by giving the reader a picture to associate with the words. ... Although all of the end words correspond with each other at some point in the poem, they don't do it in a constant way. ... It has no rhyme scheme throughout it at all. ...

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Semantic Rhyming Dictionary: http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dough/rhyme_doc.html 2. On Line Rhymer: http://www.wrteexpress.com/online.html 3. Rhyming Worksheet: http://www.edbydesign.com/sp_rhymprint.html 4. ... The class is required to write poems with rhyming words, exploration of word choices are encouraged. ... All of these forms include an element of rhyming words in their structure. ...

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Poets use different words to try and bring visual pictures to the readers mind, along with emotions. ... The last line rhymes internally with four words "Rudy toot Trudy fruity" (5) and it subsequently rhymes with the endings of the first 2 lines. ... The use of words to describe the poem show that it is a narrative because it describes the speaker. ... Irony is the use of words to change the meaning of something. ... He does this to express the point and importance of those words. ...

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Rhyme and rhythm are two of the main features in this poem. ... The first and third lines start with the main word, while in the second and fourth words come preceded by the word "And". ... Interestingly enough we can find juxtaposition of the words "face" and "furnace", as these don't usually go together, for the heat of a furnace would burn someone's face. ... In conclusion, the rhyme is produced by the stress given to the words at regular intervals. The selection of these words according to their sounds and consequent effects, the absence of rhyme. ...

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Anne Bradstreet's Themes Lie Within The Rhyme That Does Not Rhyme Mark Twain once said, "The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug." ... Lines one and two rhyme, and lines three and four rhyme, and five with six, seven with eight, and nine with ten. ... (Bradstreet 100) Bradstreet could have thought of a million words that rhymes with persevere, but she chose the word "ever." ... Bradstreet used such rhetoric's as persuasive words through metaphors, tremendous rapport, emotional words, pacing and absolu...

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"Still I Rise", is an inspirational poem with an end rhyme scheme, where words in every other line tend to rhyme. The pattern of the rhyme scheme allows the words of the poem to flow fluently and gives Angelou the opportunity to keep her tone of determination set. "You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise" In the stanza above Maya Angelou rhymes the words "lies" and "rise" . By rhyming the two she is emphasizing that although people may lie or say harmful thin...

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The pattern of the rhyme scheme is aabb, meaning there is end rhyme. ... These words have both feminine and masculine rhyme variants that are multi-syllabic. These words are not homonyms or opposites. ... Yet these words are a form of eye rhyme, which is words that are similar in spelling but different in the way they are pronounced. There is no reverse rhyme, repeating vowel sounds, and no para-rhyme, which is beginning and end of words rhyme in consonants with different vowels in between. ...

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In other words, masterpieces of art frequently illustrate the general disposition of the people during a specific time. ... Lastly, the differing rhyme scheme in each poem creates opposing moods for the reader. ... "The Ecchoing Green has an AABB rhyming pattern. ... The rhyming pattern is ABAB, but it does not seem to flow very smoothly. ... The reader does not get a sense of ease while reading because of the negative words and the seemingly inconsistent rhyming pattern. ...

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Two word contractions Wordsworth uses to preserve the meter and rhyme scheme were "0'er" and "oft". These alterations of the common words "over" and "often" are used by Wordsworth in lines 2 and 19, and by doing so help keep the rhythm flowing. ... The reversal makes the rhyme scheme possible, otherwise the lines would read," I gazed and gazed but thought little/ What wealth the show had brought to me," clearly violating the strict rhyme scheme. ... In the middle two stanzas, Wordsworth personifies elements of nature by using the words "dance" and "danced." ... The words selected in ...

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In the firs stanza, the last syllables of the words night, skies, bright, eyes, light and denies have a perfect matching rhyme on its ght and ies endings. In the second stanza the words less, grace, tress, face, express and place also have a perfect rhyme on its last three syllables ess and ace. In the third and last stanza the words brow, eloquent, glow, spent, below and innocent show an almost perfect rhyme. The first two stanzas of the poem clearly show exact or perfect rhymes: " that is the rhyming words share corresponding sounds and stresses and a similar number of syllables" (Di Yanni, ...

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The one loyal sailor laments the death of his captain in words of his own. The rhyme scheme of the poem is AABBCDED, the last words of the first stanza are "done"(a) "won"(a) "exulting"(b) "daring"(b) "heart"(c) "red"(d) "lies"(e) "dead"(d). This rhyme scheme continues through the last two verses. In the second stanza, the last word of the second line, "trills" (Line 10) slant rhymes with "bells" (Line 9). The rhyme helps in creating a smooth flow throughout the poem. ...

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Language The language in "A Lesson for this Sunday" is mostly very simple although, it does contain some words which are not widely used and some that are very complicated such as, scythe, teetering, eviscerate and lepidopterists. ... Also the rhyming scheme for each verse is different as is the length of the lines. ... Rhyming Scheme "A Lesson for this Sunday" differentiates itself the most when compared to the other poems and this takes place again in the rhyming scheme. The rhyming scheme for this poem is unconventional as it doesn't have any kind of rhyming scheme. ... "This Be The...

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The words a writer use and the sound of the rhyme can touch the reader on an emotional level. ... Most of the rhyme that occurs in Yeats" "Easter1916" is end rhyme. Yeats uses many types of end rhyme though; He blends a unique mixture of end rhyme, perfect rhyme, consonance, and assonance. ... The "ou" sound occurs in both words. ... Yeats also writes about his conversations with them as "meaningless words" and everyday conversation. ...

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These most memorable words just so happen to be the first two words that Blake lists when he rearranges the words in the last line of stanza four. ... He uses the all-important application of rhyme. The words, or elements, are specifically adapted into principles that create a rhyme pattern that incorporates the second and forth line of every stanza. The repetition of words that plays the counterpart to the rhyme pattern but as mentioned previously it is the change in repetition that creates the most memorable and striking effect for what he is trying to convey. When the rhyme and pattern...

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On My First Son has a very structural rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme is used as follows: AABBCCDDEEFF. ... The rhyme scheme in Unending love is different because the words do not rhyme at the end of every line. It is set in the rhyme scheme as demonstrated: ABCBD. ... Another literary device in On My First Son is words. ...

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William Blake uses rhythm, rhyme, and poetic devices to create a unique effect and to parallel his theme in his work "The Tyger." ... William Blake's use of rhyme greatly affects his work "The Tyger." ... The rhyme scheme is AA BB CC etc. Because the rhyming words are so distinguishable from the non-rhyming words, they form two separate categories, which also parallels the dichotomy of the poem. ... William Blake uses alliteration and assonance to make his words seem harsh or soft. ...

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He does this by the use of persona, imagery, settings, rhythm/rhyme and words. ... Rhythm and rhyme play important roles in bringing sound and music to the poem. Poe's purpose for rhythm/rhyme is to introduce a new method of expressing his grief. ... He chooses his words carefully making sure it gives the right effect about his character. ... Poe has revealed the importance of keeping the memory of a loved one alive even after death; persona, imagery, settings, rhythm/rhyme and words were methods used in showing this continuous means of attachment....

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