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- Chapter Twelve : Sound and Rhythm
- Repeating Sounds to Create a Desired Effect
- Celebrity Names Below,, there are many names that are familiar to you. Tell us why they are famous for.
- Choose Yourself an Anglo-Saxon Stage Name
- Using Initial, Internal and Final Sounds for Special Effects
- Sales Promotion and Business Language
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Repeat These Sounds Horizontally Listen to the teacher and repeat the words, four at a time, to practice saying the sounds. Cool Drool Fool Pool Rule School Stool
Fowl Foul Owl Towel Beer Fear Rear Tear Squeal Meal Veal Zeal Bear Fair Glare Pair Noon Moon Spoon Soon Boom Groom Loom Room Doubloon Platoon
Maroon Raccoon
Dragoon Quadroon Lagoon Octoroon Brown Clown Frown Gown Legion Region Prison Vision Lair Pair Rare Scare Burn Learn Spurn Yearn Born Corn Torn Scorn Bidden Burden Hidden Ridden Power Shower Slower Tower Locket Pocket Rocket Socket Coop Dupe Scoop Loop Cope Dope Hope Slope Dress Guess Mess Stress Arabesque Burlesque Picturesque Romanesque Duress Impress Impress Impress Feet Deplete Great Greet
Bait Gate Hate
Late Beast
Boast Boost
Blast Cheese Breeze Please Sneeze 402
Four Word Combinations Pronounce these words, four at a time, horizontally. Able Fable Table Stable Adventure Aperture Debenture Overture Antelope Cantaloupe Elope Envelope Beam Cream Dream Team Beer Cheer Queer Steer Bream Gleam Scream Steam Bubble Double Hubble trouble Cape Drape Nape Tape Celebrate Depreciate Decapitate Elevate Celibate Cultivate Exaggerate Exacerbate Chap Clap Snap Strap Clip Drip Slip Trip Codicil Council Pencil Stencil Cool Fool School Tool Deepest Cheapest Honest Steepest Dipper Clipper Copper Dipper Dupe Droop Coop Sloop Fiddle Diddle Huddle Fuddle Flap Flip Flop Fop Gaggle Goggle Haggle Waggle Group Hoop Loop Stoop Harpy Hippie Yippee Yuppie Paddle Puddle Piddle Waddle Rap Rep Rip Reap Squiggle Snuggle Waggle Wriggle Supple Tipple Topple Triple
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Chapter Twelve : Sound and Rhythm
Spoken language is much like music in that you have a certain pattern of sounds, set in a rhythmical pattern, in a structurally related coherent whole, with the purpose of creating a pre-conceived unity of effect. In this section, we are going to try to explain how this works by, first, taking small units of language with only two or three or four words and, then, go on to show how language uses phrases and sentences to create the kind of language that is used in song lyrics and verse and even poetry and literature. We shall begin with units using two words beginning with the same letter, such as in “due date” or “tax tariff” which we can then expand by adding one or two more words to the pattern “tax tariff terms”. This technique of repeating the initial sound is called “alliteration” and is widely used in family or product or company or stage or pop culture names so they sound good and are easy to remember. Similarly, the repetition of internal sounds can be used to achieve the same effect, often using open vowel sounds to make the idea, concept or name sound more melodious and have a pleasant special effect, such as in “new moon’ or “home grown” or “slow boat.” This technique is called “assonance.” It will seem logical that the final letters in words can be used in the same way, such as in “great treat” or “ship shape” or “hanky panky.” This technique is called “consonance.” There are a lot of other sound and rhythm techniques used in language but they are too numerous to discuss here. Instead, let’s start small with alliteration assonance and consonance to get a “first feel” for how it works. We can look at larger units later. Many people use alliteration when naming their children such as in “Ann Archer” or Bob Burger” or “Diana Drew.” Some popular product designations use the same trick so you will remember the name, such as in “baked beans” or “bubble bath” or “French fries.” The next step is to add a company name to the alliteration, and you are already creating a market, such as in Boston Baked Beans” or “Frisco Fried Fish” or “Helen’s Hamburger Heaven.” Super Stars of the Stage and Screen have often used the same gimmick, such as “Mitch Miller” or “Backstreet Boys.” Hollywood has always used this device since the initial inception of making movies, in names such as “Greta Garbo” or “Diana Durbin” or “Roslynd Russell” or “Carol Channing.” 404
Repeating Sounds to Create a Desired Effect You may have noticed that market and advertising copy writers use the repetition of sounds in certain patterns to make an idea or concept or event or character or product or company name stand out and become more memorable, as the examples that follow will illustrate : Academy Awards Amos and Andy Brooks Brothers Anglo American Brown Boggs Arthur Andersen Brown Bovary Barkley’s Bank Coca Cola Bear Brand Everest Expedition Black and Decker Film Festival Canon Camera Golden Globe Carlton Communications Hilton Hotel Coors Company Izuzu Cultural Center Johnson & Johnson Fanny Farmer King Koil Fashion Fair King’s Crown Howdy Doody Mercury Motors Hyatt Hotels Mitsubishi Motors Kimberly Clark Power Pro Range Rover Rolls Royce Shanghai Sheraton Siam Steaks Siam Cement Siam Steel Siam Center Siamese Sushi United Utilities Silver Screen Water World Tip Top
William Wrigly Notice how the names normally have an easily recognizable rhythm or pattern. If you have not grown-up exposed to popular American and English speaking culture, you may not recognize some names, especially old Hollywood film or TV stars, but this is not necessarily a real handicap, as some would say that all this media language is just a lot of “cultural claptrap.” 405
Celebrity Names Below,, there are many names that are familiar to you. Tell us why they are famous for. Aimee Anouk Farah Fawcett Alan Alden Greer Garson Andre Agassi Greta Garbo Ashley Allen Helen Hayes Barbara Bach Janis Joplin Barbara Bush Jennifer Jones Beau Bridges Kevin Kline Beau Brummel Kris Kristofferson Bill Blass Loretta Lyn Billy Bragg Malcolm McDowell Brigitte Bardot Marilyn Monroe Burt Bacharach Nick Noelte Calvin Klein Ozzie Osbourne Carol Channing Patti Page Charlie Chaplin Robert Redford Chevy Chase Ronald Regan Chick Corea Rosalind Russell Claudette Colbert Sam Shepard Connie Chung Sharon Stone Cyd Charisse Tina Turner Danny De Vito Walter Winchell Deborah Durst Sissy Spacek Dennis Day Steven Segal Diana Dors Steven Spielberg Diana Durbin Susan Sarandon Doris Day Sylvester Stallone Emilio Estevez Ted Turner
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Choose Yourself an Anglo-Saxon Stage Name Suppose they want to make you a star in Hollywood and they want you to choose a name that repeats the first letter of each name. Look at the list below and choose yourself a name. Albert Arden Ann Archer Bill Barber Bonny Baker Carl Carver Carol Cummings Danny Davidson Doris Drew Edward Edwards Eve Eastman Freddy Fowler Fanny Fleming Gerry Greer Gertrude Graham Harry Holmes Helen Hurley Irwin Inglewood Isabel Ingram Jim James Jenny Jackson Kevin Kramer Kelly Kingston Larry Lambert Lena Lewis Michael Mitchell Mona Morris Norman Naylor Norma Nelson Oscar Oswald Olive Olivier Peter Palmer Pat Patterson Quickie Quigley Quirky Quaker Rick Reed Rita Reynolds Sam Sawyer Sally Smith Sue Stewart Sheila Silversmith Terry Thomas Tammy Turner Ulrich Umbrage Ursula Underwood Vick Vincent Vera Vance Wally Wallace Wilma Weaver Xavier Xerxes Yankee Yardley Yul Young Zelda Zimmer
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You Are to Become an Undercover Agent Suppose you are working for the CIA, and you have to be given a false identity so they can give you a false passport and identity papers. Pick a first name and then a last name, but do not use alliteration because that might arouse suspicion. Instead choose a name you feel comfortable with and learn to say it just like a native speaker. First name First name Choose any name Choose any name Boys Girls Family name Family name Ace Alice Amherst Arthur
Adam Anita Anderson Ayer Andrew Arlene Aldrich Allison Barry Barbara Brady Bradley Bert Becky Brandon Brewer
Bartholomew Beth Beardsley Booth Craig Cathy Carlton Chesterfield Christopher Charlotte Cutler Chandler Colin Cynthia Carter Cox Dale Dawn Drake Donaldson David Donna Dewey Dawson Dean Doris Dudley Denver
Drew Dolly Dearborn Duke Edward Elizabeth Engel Eaton Edwin Evelyn Eccles
Edwards Floyd Fay Ferguson Flanders Frank Florence Fairbanks Ferris Fritz Francine Fowler Finch Gordon Grace
Gordon Gardner
Gary Gloria Gates Gingrich Hal Hannah Harris Houston
Howard Heather Hughes Howell Hugh Helen Henderson Hurst
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James Janice Johnson James Jerry Jennifer Jones Jackson Joseph Jessica Jamison Jenkins Josh Judy Jensen Jacobs Keith Katherine Kent Kemp Lance Linda Kenilworth Kensington Larry Lily Lawrence Loughton Lucky Louise Lane Lambert Michael Marilyn Monroe Manson Morris Michelle Mitchell Mitchell Many Monica Mayer Montgomery Neal Nancy Nielson Norman
Owen Olivia Olivier Owens Patrick Phyllis Packer Pendleton Peter Rachael Roanoke Richmond Quentin Rose Redman Russell Ralph Ruth Rawlings Rodgers
Scott Sally Stanton Sanders
Stanley Sandra Simpson Samson Terrence Tina Sanders Southern Thomas Tracy Thompson Tucker Tony Ursula Unilever Ulrich
Vincent Veronica Vane Vickers Victor Violet Vickers Verger Walter Virginia Vary Vincent Wayne Wendy Webster Wilson Winston Yvonne Yates York
Zero Zelda Zane Zoroaster Keep repeating the sounds in these pages and to get a feel for the natural sound and rhythm. 409
Alliteration Also Appears in Popular Culture Incidentally, practicing a lot of names will help you to be able to communicate much better. Annie Oakley Beach Boys Backstreet Boys Beverly Hillbillies Bill Bailey Bill Bailey Billy Bob Bjorn Borg Black Beauty Black Beard Blue Beard Boris Becker Buffalo Bill Candy Cane Donald Duck Clark Kent Fearless Fosdick Credence Clearwater Golden Girls Daffy Duck Jungle Jim Dizzy Dean Kristine Keeler Doctor Doolittle Lois Lane Hugh Heffner Lyle Lovet Jesse James Mickey Mantle King Kong Mickey Mouse Kitty Kelly Molly Malone Lenox Lewis Peter Piper Linda Lovelace Pink Panther Minnie Mouse Rin Tin Tin Olive Oil Sammy Snead Peter Pan Sammy Sosa Roy Rogers Sweet Pea Sam Spade Tiny Tim Simple Simon Ugly Duckling Sinbad the Sailor Uncle Wiggly Willie Wells
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Allusions An “allusion” is a reference to someone or something well-informed people would know about. Don’t worry if you don’t get all the allusions. Nobody knows everything. This list contains a lot of celebrated names from various fields. Can you tell what some of them were famous for? Ambrose Bierce Alfred Adler Bela Bartok Chubby Checker Benjamin Britain Countee Cullen Bertolt Brecht Daniel Defoe Brendan Behan Denis Diderot Calvin Coolidge George Gershwin Captain Cook Lerner and Lowe Cassius Clay Marcel Marceau Christopher Columbus Marco Polo Galileo Galilei Margaret Mead Glen Gould Mary Martin Graham Greene Mary Shelly Guenther Grass Pietro Pomponazzi Harry Houdini Richard Leaky Hedda Hopper Richard Rogers Henry Hudson Rob Roy McGregor Herbert Hoover Sidney Sheldon Herman Hesse Steven Spender Howard Hughes Tina Turner Hubert Humphrey Vincent Van Gough James Jones Walt Whitman James Joyce Walter Winchell Jesse Jackson William Wallace Ken Keasy William Wordsworth Lucky Luciano Woodrow Wilson
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Well-Known Word Pairs If you don’t know the meaning of some of these expressions, your teacher can explain. All Alone Adam’s Apple Bad Boys Best Behavior Child Care Blue-Blooded Common Courtesy Cool Customer Corn Cob Death’s Door Creepy Crawlies Designer Dresses Dead Duck Double-Dealing Ding Dong Fast Food Dog’s Days Fish Fry Extra Edition Golden Gate Funny Face Happy Home Ham Hock Haunted House Heavy Heart Insider Information Magic Marker Lady Luck Man-Made Lover’s Lane No Name
Mealy-Mouthed One-Owner Money Maker Peer Pressure Picture perfect Poor People Pre-Paid Queen’s Consort Private Parts Quick Conquest Quick Quiz Rocky Road Road Rage Sin City Tattle Tale Sun Shade Tick Tock Tell Tale Wanton Woman Time Table Weeping Willow Wing Ding Wild West
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Using Initial, Internal and Final Sounds for Special Effects It doesn’t matter if the words are made to rhyme by initial, internal or final sounds. Ann Landers Abracadabra Bad Dad
Annual Election Boxing Ring Atomic Pact Charcoal Gray Brush with Death Chinese Dynasties Crispy Crunchy Come Quickly Decisions and Revisions Dancing Sippers Earned-Respect Double Bubble Easy Money Eveready Eleventh Hour Fatal Attraction Eva Gardner Glitter and Flitter Free and Easy Groan and Moan Golden sands Hand Gun Control Gretna Green Hustle-Bustle Jail Bait Jingle Jangle Keystone Cops Margery Morningstar Kissing Cousins Nest of Nettles Kitty Litter Orphan Annie Lost Control Peter Pan Madam I’m Adam Quick Click Oxygen Bottle Quirky Character Peter Pumpkin-Eater Razzle-Dazzle Real Deal Seven Eleven Remote Control Seventh Heaven Rush and Flush Sleek Duck’s Back Short Stop Woolen Sweater Teetotaler
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Sales Promotion and Business Language If you work in business, it won’t do you any harm to practice saying the terms below : Added-Attraction Customer Service Best Beauty Buy Delicatessen Delights Better Business Bureau Do You Yahoo? Cheap Charlie Special Drastic Discount Day Customer Credit Extreme Lowest Limit Customer’s Claims Final Focus Double Discount Finest Quality Easter Extravaganza Freight Forwarder Extra-Exiting Open Offer Fresh Frozen Fancy Foods Fantastic Flavors Inexpensive Import Items Fat Free Foods Introductory Offer on New Item Fine French Wine Kiddy Corner Fresh Frozen Fish Limited Offer Honest Ed’s Super Sale Low Cost Creature Comfort Just-Arrived Marketing Manager Lend Lease Pre-Sale Promotion Low Budget Discount Returns and Refunds Lowest Prices Possible Satisfaction Guaranteed Family Fun Fair Service with a Smile More Value for Less Money Signed and Sealed New Idea/ New Item Special Customer Cost Cuts Power Performance Special Saturday Sunday Sale Sales Strategy Special Services Center Sensational Summer Sale State-of-the-Art Technology Spring Sensations Super Savings Special Standard of Excellence Superior Quality Control Super Deluxe Sales Sensation Swift Customer Service
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Alliterations Reading and talking about all these sheets is a great way to increase your vocabulary. Arrogant Attitude African Ape Breast Bone Beer Bottle Brown Bread Completed Corrections Canadian Consulate Crash Course Dare Devil Darling Daughter Dreaded Disease Dingle-Dangle Elementary Education Early Edition Free Food Early Evening Friendly Fire Extreme Excitement Gobbledygook Feeding Frenzy Heavenly Horizon Glamour Girl Morally-Minded Greenhouse Gases Official Orders Holding Hands Personal Property Household Hints Pizza Parlor Meat Market Platinum-Plated Military Might Political Patronage Official Opinion Proud Parents Physical Fitness Quick Question Potted-Plant Rest and Recreation Private Papers Safe and Sound Same Sex Sling Shot Short Speech Snap Shots Tame Tiger Teeter Totter Tongue-Tied Terrycloth Towel Whispering Winds World Wide Wide-eyed Wonder Westerly Winds Wild Woman
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Familiar Alliterations Teachers who find it helpful to use alliteration sheets may want to have more examples, so they are not doing the same sheets over and over. Some extra lists will allow a wider choice. Arresting Agent Beer Bar Bird Brain Dead Dog Brown Bear Dirty Deal Cool Car Eagle-Eyed Drunk Driver Evil Eye Financial Figures Free Fall Fist Fight Gray Goose Golden Gloves Ground Glass Good Girl Jumbo Jet Hip Hop
Latin Lover Jam Jar
Lemon Lime Low Life More Money Mild Mannered Much Milder Old Order Pool Parlor Paper Plates Powdered Potatoes People Person Power Pack Poor Performance Power Plant Red Rose Ruby Red Rest Room Rusty Razor Service Station Simple Solution Small Space Super Sonic Soap Suds Tea Time Tip Toe
Treason Trial Uncontrollable Urge Very Valuable White Wash Zealous Zealot
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