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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Rhyme"”.
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Rhythm, rhyme, and rhetoric in "12 years a day Django".
This thesis examines the rhetoric of 12 Years a Day Django, a contemporary written rap battle performance by rapper Daylyt. Three major arguments are advanced. First, written rap battling is a genre worthy of greater scholarly scrutiny. Second, a rapper's style of flow can be racialized, meaning …
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A Preliminary Investigation of the Modified Rhyme Test as A Test of Speech Discrimination
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The Modified Rhyme Test: The Effects of Sensation Level on Discriminationscores on an Adult Sensorineural Population
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Rhyming grammars and Celtic phonology
… our understanding of a typology of poetic rhyme through the analysis of three rhyming traditions that show unconventional patterns in the contents, position, and size of rhyme domains. The rhyme domain (RD) is a string of segments that stand in correspondence with another string of segments …
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Theto ya sebjalebjale ya maitekelo (Sepedi)
… in terms of content, structure, stanza form and rhyme. This study uses two research methodologies, namely definition and description of pertinent aspects of the poems related to the topic of study, modern Sepedi poetry. The model used examines the structure of the texts in terms of the three …
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Some elements of modern poetic technique
… is divided into three sections. The section on rhyme discusses whether the modern poet should use rhyme and describes methods used to develop the technique. The section on diction describes traditional modes of rhetoric, including levels of style and figures, and investigates contemporary …
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Desempenho da consciência fonológica de aprendizes de segunda língua, bilíngues e monolíngues
… and the runtime of the subtests (alliteration, rhyme and segmentation) were analyzed. The results indicate that L2 learners perform better in alliteration and rhyme, while the bilingual students showed higher hit percentage in the segment. Through the analysis of the runtime group, we can say …
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An analytic study of sonnets in Zulu
… by various linguists; iambic pentameter and the rhyme scheme. In chapter three we firstly defined the major characteristics of sonnets. These major structural features of a sonnet are clearly depicted in Kreuzer's (1955:224) definition of a sonnet, that a sonnet is: a fourteen-line lyric poem, in …
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Morphological Representations In Lexical Processing
… which examines the sensitivity of phonological rhyme priming to morphological structure, specifically, the extent to which stems of complex words are available for rhyme priming. Results suggest that phonological rhyme priming can facilitate phonological representations without facilitating …
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Sound in Conflict: Lyric Poetry and the American Civil War
… have been held as making or containing: rhythm, rhyme and voice. The first chapter investigates the rhythmic patterning of Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps (1865), and its potential origin in Whitman’s theories of health and his work in army hospitals. The second chapter takes on rhyme, via a paired …
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Phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge in the acquisition of literacy skills
… During the first year, correlations from rhyme or alliteration awareness to later literacy were significant over intervals of two or three months. Correlations in the other direction, that is, from literacy to later rhyme or alliteration awareness were also significant over these periods. …
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Conscious and Automatic Processing of Semantic and Acoustic Attributes by Mildly Mentally Retarded and Nonretarded Young Adults.
… (incidental semantic task), another group formed rhyme (incidental acoustic group) and a third group was given no processing strategy. Subjects were tested using a standard recognition test and a rhyme recognition test, immediately and after 24 hours. The results revealed that the nonretarded …
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The use of the genitive in the Arthurian section of Layamon's "Brut"
… possibilities in order to facilitate meter and rhyme.
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Rimarju
… and use of phonetics to find words that rhyme, incorporating these phenomena with a topic modelling system which can rank and group words in terms of context. To achieve this, a rhyme detection technique is utilized, employing the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). This …
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Rhythmic perception and entrainment in 5-year-old children
… such as the ability to hear syllables and rhymes within the speech stream. The hypothesis explored within this study is that since music and language have parallel auditory perceptual mechanisms then training in rhythmic activities, such as music, could lead to increased understanding of …
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Martinus Nijhoff se bundel, "De Wandelaar", gesien as tydsverskynsel deur kritiese verwysing na die tema en die styl in die bundel
… explored as it appears in the volume; metre; rhyme and imagery. Chapter five traces the relationship between theme, style and the spirit of the time with reference to the cultural and literary climate in Europe in general and in the Netherlands in particular during the years 1870 to 1914. It …
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holiness and other hauntings
… ghosts. Her poems lean towards music; internal rhyme, assonance and consonance, alliteration, and long strings of rhymed vowels that sit like pearls in the mouth. Her poems beg forgiveness in shouts; she writes as remembrance, as prayer, as missive, as an engine for hope.
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Max Weber's Object of Knowledge
… and meaning--could not be made to "rhyme" with this Kantian concept of knowledge. This dissertation traces Weber's relationships to Kant and to the NeoKantians, in order then to explicate his concept of knowledge, his conception of the object of knowledge of his social science, and …
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Relationships Between Reading Ability in Third Grade and Phonological Awareness in Kindergarten
… in reading. Four predictor variables (rhyme awareness, letter recognition, sound-letter relationships, and concept of word) were evaluated to determine their level of predictability for later reading success. Independent samples t-tests were conducted to determine whether a significant …
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Types of Poetry Written By the 1983 Young Authors
… cinquain, triplet, quantrain, stanza with rhyme, limerick, and diamante. The conclusion drawn from the investigation were as follows: 1) The couplet form of poetry was most used; 2) Quantrain and haiku forms of poetry were the second and third most used; 3) The triplet and diamante forms of …
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