Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
PHONETIC EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES
- Onomatopeia: ---
- Alliteration: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion´s paws,
Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,
- Rhyme: - Full rhyme: in the sonnet II: brow/now, field/held, use/excuse, mine/thine, old/cold; in the sonnet IX: life/wife, weep/keep, behind/mind, spend/end, sits/commits; in the sonnet XIX: paws/jaws, fleets/sweets, Time/crime, wrong/young; in the sonnet CXXXV: Will/still, spacious/gracious, thine/shine, store/more, kill/Will.
- Encomplete rhyme: - vowel rhyme: lies/eyes, days/praise, eye/die
- consonant rhyme: field/held, old/cold,
behind/mind, spend/end, sits/commits, still/will/kill
- eye rhyme: brood/blood
- eternal rhyme: ---
- Rhythm: - Rhythm in a verse or in a prose is intentional repetition of systematically arranged sonic elements. The rhythm is a means that we mostly use in verse. The rhythm of the verse is formed by sonic elements,eg: stress, the length of the syllables etc. This is called prosodic system. As we have already mentioned, Shakespeare wrote his sonnet in blankvers. Similar to blankverse is alexandrian. These belongs to tonic prosodic system.