PHONETIC STYLISTIC DEVICES KINDLY PRESENTED BY: MIKHALEVA ANASTASIA, DGL-121 B
ALLITERATION It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. It creates a musical effect in the text that enhances the pleasure of reading a literary piece.
ALLITERATION. EXAMPLES “His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. ” (James Joyce’s “The Dead”) drained and dried wings of winds lines of light
ASSONANCE Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds Writers use it as a tool to enhance a musical effect in the text by using it for creating internal rhyme, which consequently enhances the pleasure of reading a literary piece.
ASSONANCE. EXAMPLES “If I bleat when I speak it’s because I just got. . . fleeced. ” – Deadwood by Al Swearengen “Strips of tinfoil winking like people” – The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath “I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless. ” – With Love by Thin Lizzy
ONOMATOPOEIA A word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting
ONOMATOPOEIA. EXAMPLES The buzzing bee flew away. The books fell on the table with a loud thump. The rustling leaves kept me awake. “The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees…” “I’m getting married in the morning! Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. ”
RHYTHM is a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form
TYPES OF RHYTHM These rhythms are of different patterns of stressed (/) and unstressed (x) syllables. 1. Iamb (x /) - The first syllable is not stressed while the second syllable is stressed. a. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 2. Trochee (/ x) - The first syllable is strongly stressed while the second syllable is unstressed a. “Tell me not, in mournful numbers”
TYPES OF RHYTHM 3. Spondee (/ /) - two syllables that are consecutively stressed a. “White founts falling in the Courts of the sun” 4. Dactyl (/ x x) - The first syllable is stressed and the remaining two syllables are not stressed a. “This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, ” 5. Anapest (x x /) - where the first two syllables are not stressed while the last syllable is stressed a. “Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, ”
RHYME is a repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs differentiates poetry from prose which is plain it offers itself as a mnemonic device smoothing the progress of memorization
TYPES OF RHYME Tail Rhyme - It occurs in the final syllable of a verse or line. “Twinkle, twinkle little star How I wonder what you are” Internal Rhyme - a word at the end of a verse rhymes with another word in the same line “Just turn me loose let me straddle my old saddle, Underneath the western skies, On my cayuse let me wander over yonder, ‘Til I see the mountains rise. ”
TYPES OF RHYME Holo-rhyme - all the words of two entire lines rhyme “In Ayrshire hill areas, a cruise, eh, lass? ” “Inertia, hilarious, accrues, hélas!” Cross rhyme – this refers to matching sounds at the end of intervening lines “Had I but lived a hundred years ago I might have gone, as I have gone this year, By Warmwell Cross on to a Cove I know, And Time have placed his finger on me there”
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