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Chain rhyme is a rhyme scheme that links together stanzas by carrying a rhyme over from one stanza to the next.
A number of verse forms use chain rhyme as an integral part of their structures. One example is terza rima, which is written in tercets with a rhyming pattern ABA BCB CDC. Another is the virelai ancien, which rhymes AABAAB BBCBBC CCDCCD.
Other verse forms may also use chain rhyme. For instance, quatrains can be written to the following pattern: AABA BBCB CCDC.
There are a few well-known examples of chain rhyme in world literature. In the Persian language, chain rhyme is almost exclusively...
Le marabout est un jeu d'esprit. Il s'agit, à partir d'une expression initiale, de construire une suite d'expressions ou une suite de mots dont les premières syllabes correspondent phonétiquement aux dernières de l'expression précédente.
== Présentation ==
Cette technique se nomme la concaténation. Elle est proche de l'anadiplose, figure de style qui consiste à reprendre le dernier mot d'une proposition au début de la proposition qui suit : « L'absence, c'est Dieu. Dieu, c'est la solitude des hommes. » (Jean-Paul Sartre, Le Diable et le Bon Dieu, acte 2).
Son équivalent japonais est le shiritori...
En littérature, le dorica castra est une forme particulière de l'anadiplose qui se caractérise non par la reprise d'un même mot au début de l'unité syntaxique suivante mais par la reprise d'un même son de la fin d'une unité au début d'une autre unité.
Le terme même « dorica castra » constitue un dorica castra, puisque le son ca à la fin de dorica est repris au début de castra. Cette figure est particulièrement utilisée dans la poésie latine pour son effet sonore[réf. souhaitée], mais l'exemple le plus connu est celui d'une comptine pour enfant.
== Étymologie ==
L’expression latine Dorica castra...
I was quite shocked when in Strasbourg I read a plaque that said that something had been built by the 'culte catholique', but from the dictionary definition I cannot tell whether it is a polite synonym for religion. I'd appreciate an informed opinion.
Washing out the mouth with soap is a traditional form of physical punishment that consists of placing soap, or a similar cleaning agent, inside a person's mouth so that the person will taste it, inducing what most people consider an unpleasant experience. This form of punishment was especially common in the United States and United Kingdom from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century.
Washing out the mouth with soap is most often used as a response to profanity, lying, biting, tobacco use, or verbal disrespect. It functions both as a symbolic "cleansing" following the infraction and as...
West Midlands English is a group of dialects of the English language native to the English West Midlands.
== County accents ==
Certain areas of the West Midlands are stereotyped as having stronger accents than others, Dudley in the Black Country being an example. There are some local phrases in the Black Country that are renowned. People do tend to substitute a reply of "arr" for "yes". Generally, most words are shortened, most commonly being "I haven't" to "I ay" (which can be argued as an even shorter form of "I ain't").
In the south of the West Midlands (southern Warwickshire and Worcestershire...
The pronunciation of the phoneme /r/ in the English language has many variations in different dialects.
== Variations ==
Depending on dialect, /r/ has at least the following allophones in varieties of English around the world:
"Standard" R: labialized postalveolar approximant [ɹ̠ʷ] (a common realization of the /r/ phoneme worldwide, Received Pronunciation and General American included)
"Bunched" or "Molar" R: labialized and pharyngealized velar bunched approximant [ɣ̞ʷˤ] (occurs in Southern American English and some Midwestern and Western American English most strongly); in fact, there is often...
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We have the adjective "facial" for the noun "face", and I am wondering what the counterpart for the noun "head" is.
I could not find it on Google, and ChatGPT told me "cranial" which seems a bit different from what I expected.
In everyday language, the word head is often used as an attributive noun:
The masseur will apply the facial cream and give you a head rub.
Miss D. is waiting for her head transplant, so she has priority over Miss M., who merely needs a face transplant.
In more formal or academic or literary l...
Catherine Thomson "Kate" Dickens (née Hogarth; 19 May 1815 – 22 November 1879) was the wife of English novelist Charles Dickens, the mother of his ten children, and a writer of domestic management.
== Early life ==
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1815, Catherine moved to England with her family in 1824.
She was the eldest daughter of ten children to George Hogarth. Her father was a journalist for the Edinburgh Courant, and later became a writer and music critic for the Morning Chronicle, where Dickens was a young journalist, and later the editor of the Evening Chronicle. Dickens immediately took...
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