![]() ![]() Hamana-hamana, variously spelled, and duplicated as needed, implies speechless embarrassment. Ha-ha (with possible redoubling) communicates laughter or derision. ![]() Ha expresses joy or surprise, or perhaps triumph. Gak is an expression of disgust or distaste. They are interjections - one class of them, anyway: those lacking etymological origins but packed with meaning.īut how do you know how to distinguish similar ones - or spell them, for that matter? Here’s an incomplete inventory of interjections (not including variations of actual words such as yeah for yes or onomatopoeic echoes of externally produced sounds like boom):Īh can denote positive emotions like relief or delight (generally, pronounced with a long a).Īha signals triumph or surprise, or perhaps derision.Īrgh, often drawn out with additional h’s, is all about frustration.Īw can be dismissive or indicative of disappointment, or, when drawn out, expressive of sympathy or adoration.īlah communicates boredom or disappointment.īoo-hoo is imitative of crying and is derisive.īoo-ya (with several spelling variants) is a cry of triumph.īwah-hah-hah (variously spelled, including mwah-hah-hah) facetiously mimics the stereotypical archvillain’s triumphant laugh.ĭ’oh is the spelling for the muttering accompanying Homer Simpson’s trademark head-slapping self-abuse.Įh, with a question mark, is a request for repetition or confirmation of what was just said without, it is dismissive.Įw denotes disgust, intensified by the addition of one or more e’s and/or w’s.įeh (and its cousin meh) is an indication of feeling underwhelmed or disappointed. Pass into nothingness but still will keepįull of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.They often seem disreputable, like sullen idlers loitering in a public thoroughfare, but they actually do a lot of hard work and are usually persnickety about the tasks to which they are put. In the poem “Endymion,” John Keats uses enjambment. For example, poets may break between the subject and a verb, an article and a noun, or between a helping verb and an action verb. It continues on without a pause into the next line. Count the beat in William Blake’s poem “The Lamb.”Īlso, look for alliteration, assonance, consonance, and end-rhyme.Ĭaesuras are a break, pause, or interruption in the line.Īn end-stopped line occurs like natural speech it ends at the end of a line.Įnjambment, the opposite of the end-stopped line, does not pause at the end of a line. Meter is the countable beat that a poet or reader can count. ![]() Poets have a variety of possibilities for building that rhythm and ending lines. Rhythm, of course, is the beat–the stressed syllables in a poem. Rhyme can occur at the end of a line, called end rhyme, or it can occur in the middle of the line, called internal rhyme. ![]() They are often spelled in a similar way, but they don’t have to be spelled in similar ways. Rhyme requires two or more words that repeat the same sounds. Onomatopoeia means a word resembles the meaning sound it represents. How do poets create sound and rhythm in their poems? Through several literary devices.Īssonance is the repetition of the same vowel sound in words near each other.Ĭonsonance is the repetition of the same consonant sounds in words near each otherĪlliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words near each other. They are meant to be read aloud to hear the sound, the rhythm, and sometimes the rhyme. ![]()
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