ALLITERATION, ASSONANCE
Alliteration is a device based on repetition of the same or similar sounds
at close distance, which makes speech more expressive. It is frequently
used in idioms:
-blind as bat;
-tit for tat (=an eye for an eye);
-tit-bit (лакомый кусочек);
-(it is) neck or nothing (план или пропан);
-as good as gold.
A variant of alliteration is assonance, repetition of the same similar
vowels only, e.x:
-My shoes show signs of wear and tear;
-the wear and tear of city life.
ONOMATOPOEIA
This term denotes sound imitation, i.e. the use of words which denotes some
phenomenon by imitating its real sounding. It may be imitation of the sounds
produced by animals:
-buzz (sounds of bees);
-hiss (snakes);
-bow-wow (dogs);
-mew/miaow and purr (cats).
-flop, splash, bubble (imitation of natural sounds).
THE USE OF RHYTHM AND RHYME IN
VERSIFICATION
Rhythm in poetic speech is produced by regular alternation of stressed
and unstressed syllables. e.x:
Why do you cry, Willie?
Why do you cry?
Why, Willie, why, Willie,
Why, Willie, why?
A division of the poetic line from stressed to stress, which contains one
stressed syllable and one or two unstressed syllable, is called a Foot.
According the correlation of stressed and unstressed syllables within the
foot, there are 5 types of feet: trochee, iambus, dactyl, amphibrach,
anapaest.
RHYME
Rhyme is created by the repetition of the same sounds in
the last stressed syllable of two (or more) lines in a stanza
(строфа).
There male and female rhyme are by the type of the stressed
syllable.
RHYME
It is the male rhyme when the stress falls on the last syllable in the
rhymed lines.
It is the female rhyme, when it falls on the last but one syllable:
When the lamp is shattered (female rhyme)
The light in the dust lies dead; (male rhyme)
When the cloud is scattered, (female)
The rainbow`s glory is shed. (male) (P.B. Shelley)
Types of Stanza
The most common stanza, one consisting of four lines, is
called a quatrain;
The more seldom one, consisting of two, is called a couplet.
There is also a ballad stanza. A ballad is a poem with a plot,
which tells some story.
A specific type of stanza is used in a sonnet. There are 12
lines, 2 final lines.
Blank verse (белый стих), where no rhyming, but rhythm
is preserved.
LITERATURE
1. I.R. Galperin Stylistics Moscow 1997
2. В.В. Гуревич English Stylistics Москва 2011г.
