Separate sounds due to their acoustic properties may awake certain ideas, feelings, images, and emotions. Think of a gentle lapping and bubbling of water What do you feel listening to the screeching of something against a window pane?
- So, different sounds have different effect on us. The sounds of language also create different responses in us and writers and poets use this in their works. By choosing words writers can evoke strong emotional responses and reinforce the meaning they wish to convey.
The most common sound features are rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia.
Rhyme
Rhyme /raim / is the repetition of identical or similar terminal sounds, chaining two or more lines of a poem.
Rhyme has several functions:
- it adds a musical quality to the poem;
- it makes the poem easier to remember;
- it affects the pace and tone of the poem.
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