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rima grave (oxytonic rhyme): The rhyming words are accented on the last syllable, for example: cartón (cardboard) and limón (lemon), jerez (sherry) and revés (backwards). Grave words that end in a single same vowel can be asonante rhymes for example compró (he/she bought) and llevó (he/she carried), tendré (I will have) and pediré (I ...
small Y-shaped handheld projectile weapon often used by children (US: slingshot) a type of medieval siege engine an aircraft catapult (v.) rise quickly chaps [?] men or boys (but increasingly used for people of either sex; in the singular it still almost exclusively refers to a male, "Guys" has become a more popular phrase in the UK) (US & UK ...
Dale identifies the following varieties of Traditional Pure Rhyme: Single Pure Rhyme (example: cat / mat); Double Pure Rhyme (example: silly / Billy) Triple Pure Rhyme (example: mystery / history)
CALD 3rd Ed. Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary 3rd Edition CD-ROM. The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (abbreviated CALD) is a British dictionary of the English language.
Terza rima (/ ˌ t ɛər t s ə ˈ r iː m ə /, also US: / ˌ t ɜːr-/, [1] [2] [3] Italian: [ˈtɛrtsa ˈriːma]; lit. ' third rhyme ') is a rhyming verse form, in which the poem, or each poem-section, consists of tercets (three-line stanzas) with an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme: The last word of the second line in one tercet provides the rhyme for the first and third lines in the ...
Just to notice the correction and that this has already been proved to be a false etymology. "Gringo" was already documented in the Diccionario Castellano of Esteban Terreros y Pando in 1786, so "gringo" has nothing to do with "green go home". The most valid and accepted etymology is a deformation of "griego" that means "greek" in Spanish.
The décima afro-pacífica is an extension of the décima espinela into four décima stanzas with an introductory four-line stanza (or copla) that often summarizes the entire work using the 10th line of each décima stanza, making a total of forty four octosyllabic lines (one quatrain plus four décima espinelas).
"Las Palabras de Amor (The Words of Love)" is a rock ballad by the British rock band Queen. It was released as the third single from their 1982 album Hot Space . It is sung mostly in English, but with several Spanish phrases.