Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

BY ROBERT FRO ST

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods, fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Getting to know you

It's a very ancient saying

But a true and honest thought
That if you become a teacher
By your pupils you'll be taught
As a teacher I've been learning
You'll forgive me if I boast
And I've now become an expert
On the subject I like most
Getting to know you
Getting to know you
Getting to know all about you
Getting to like you
Getting to hope you like me
Getting to know you
Putting it my way
But nicely
You are precisely
My cup of tea
Getting to know you
Getting to know all about you
Getting to like you
Getting to hope you like me
Getting to know you
Putting it my way
But nicely
You are precisely
My cup of tea
Getting to know you
Getting to feel free and easy
When I am with you
Getting to know what to say
Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy?
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day by day
Getting to know you
Getting to feel free and easy
When I am with you
Getting to know what to say
Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy?
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day by day

alliteration

 Come and clean the chaos in your closet.

 The big, bad bear scared all the baby bunnies by the bushes.
 Shut the shutters before the banging sound makes you shudder.
 Go and gather the green leaves on the grass.
 Please put away your paints and practice the piano.
 Round and round she ran until she realized she was running round and round.
 I had to hurry home where grandma was waiting for her waffles.
 The boy buzzed around as busy as a bee.
 Garry grumpily gathered the garbage.
 Those lazy lizards are lying like lumps in the leaves.
 Paula planted the pretty pink poppies in the pot.
 Kim came to help us cut out a colorful kite for Chris.
 Bake a big cake with lots of butter and bring it to the birthday bash.
 Paula's prancing pony out-performed all the others.
 Little Larry likes licking the sticky lollipop.

Here are a few short assonance examples:

 "Hear the mellow wedding bells" by Edgar Allen Poe
 "Try to light the fire"
 "I lie down by the side fo my bride"/"Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese"/"Hear the lark
and harden to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground" by Pink Floyd
 "It's hot and it's monotonous." by Sondheim
 "The crumbling thunder of seas" by Robert Louis Stevenson
 "If I bleat when I speak it's because I just got . . . fleeced." - "Deadwood" by Al
Swearengen
 "It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it cleans!" - slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners
 "Those images that yet/Fresh images beget,/That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented
sea." - "Byzantium" by W.B. Yeats
 "Soft language issued from their spitless lips as they swished in low circles round and
round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds" - "Portrait of the Artist as
a Young Man" by James Joyce
 "The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent and ragged, their legs drying in knots." -
"Holy the Firm" by Annie Dillard
 "The setting sun was licking the hard bright machine like some great invisible beast on
its knees." - "Death, Sleep, and the Traveler" by John Hawkes
 "I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless." - "With Love" by Thin
Lizzy
 "In the over-mastering loneliness of that moment, his whole life seemed to him nothing
but vanity." - "Night Rider" by Robert Penn Warren

Consonance
Consonance is typically used to refer to the repetition of ending sounds that
are consonants, but it can refer to repetition of consonant sounds within the
word as well. Often, consonance is used to create a rhyme or cadence.
Consonance differs from alliteration and assonance. Alliteration,
remember, is the repetition of a sound at the beginning of a
word. Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound.
Consonance is the repetition of a consonant sound and is typically used to
refer to the repetition of sounds at the end of the word, but also refers to
repeated sounds in the middle of a word.
Examples of Consonance:
1. Pitter Patter, Pitter Patter-repetition of the "t," and "r" sounds.
2. The lint was sent with the tent-repetition of the "nt" sound.
3. I think I like the pink kite-repetition of the "k" sound.
4. I held my nose in the breeze so I would not sneeze on your knees-repetition
of the "z" sound (caused by "z" and "s").
5. Her foot left a print on the carpet-repetition of the "t" sound.
6. Odds and ends-repetition of the "d" and "s" sounds.
Examples of Consonance in Literature:
1. William Blakes "Tyger": "TygerTyger, burning bright-repetition of the "g" and
"r" sounds.
2. Shakespeare's Sonnet 64: "Increasing store with loss and loss with store"-
repetition of the "s" sound at the beginning of "store" and end of "loss".
3. William Butler Yeats' "The Man Who Dreamed of Fairyland": "Old silence bids
its chosen race rejoice, / Whatever raveled waters rise and fall / Or stormy
silver fret the gold of day"-repetition of the "r" sound.
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Examples
Grammar Examples
 Example of
Type Forming the Plural Plural
Type

lamp lamps
Most Nouns add s
scythe scythes

Noun Ending s, sh, ch, x bus buses

add es
or z dress dresses

add either s or es
volcano volcanoes or volcanos
Nouns ending [consonant] (There are no rules
zero zeros
o for this - you have to
tomato tomatoes
know.)

patio patios
Nouns ending [vowel] o add s
ratio ratios

Nouns ending [consonant] story change the y to an i stories

y penny and add es pennies

storey ( ) storeys
Nouns ending [vowel] y add s
donkey donkeys

ves and/or s
dwarf dwarfs
Nouns ending f or fe (There are no rules -
knife knives
you have to know.)

some nouns undergo

man men
Exceptions a vowel or letters
louse lice
change

salmon some nouns do not salmon

More exceptions
sheep change at all sheep