rime
Definitions of rime
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a piece of poetry
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correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)types:rime intérieurea rhyme between words in the same lineallitérationuse of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verseassonancethe repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive wordstype of:versificationthe form or metrical composition of a poem
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"Once Upon a Time," Vocabulary from the short story
As you read Nadine Gordimer's "Once Upon a Time," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 9's Collection 1: A Quilt of a Country, Once Upon a Time, Rituals of Memory, The Gettysburg Address
Heir
In this romantic fantasy novel, the lives of three young people intersect: Aiz, a poor orphan languishing in prison; Sirsha, an outcast banished from her tribe; and Quil, a crown prince.
Inferno
In this classic 14th-century epic poem and the first book of the Divine Comedy, the author travels through an imagined version of hell with the ancient Roman poet Virgil as his guide.