ASL poetry day 3

A rhyme repeating patterns to bring out rhythm or musicality in poems. It is a repetition of similar sounds occurring in lines in a poem which gives the poem a symmetric quality

Symmetry signing: two shapes looking the same way from either side

Two ways

Signing

one sign on both hands at the same time. Signing

two one handed signs at the same time.

Examples #1: bird tweeting  #2 Yes vs No

When sounds at the beginning, middle, or end of words or lines of poetry are the same, it creates rhyme. 

Break down the unit of sound into smaller pieces

Examples of Rhymes:

-      The end sounds of words are similar:

•      DOVE and LOVE, HORN and CORN

-      The beginning of words sound the same

•      Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly ( alliteration)

break down of a sign into handshape, movement, palm orientation, and nonmanual signals offers the ASL poet many opportunities to rhyme in ASL. 

Parts of signs that form a pattern create an ASL rhyme.

In ASL, two or more words (signs) are repeated. The parts may be the same handshape, movement, and/or location, or combined, but handshape is the most commonly used rhyme

Examples of ASL Rhyme:

-Using the same hand shape for three or more words

•  5 handshape to sign BIRTH, CHILDREN, GROW-UP

WHITE WOLF GONE

is the repetition of a pattern of sounds in poetry. 

created by using long and short sounds and stressed and unstressed syllables. There are several different type of units of rhythm in poetry.

William Blake's "Tyger" Tyger, Tyger, burning bright, In the forest of the night.

In Macbeth, Shakespeare •   Double, Double, Toil and Trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubbl

signs are expressed with a combination of movement, pace, pauses or holds. 

Rhythm can also be done by changing the handshapes or by causing the placements of the hands to begin and end in the same spatial positions