R Words

I will be posting writing terms every other week from the book "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing" (2nd edition) by Laurie E. Rozakis.

1. realistic fiction- contains imaginary situations and characters that are very similar to people in real life.
2. refrain- a line or a group of lines that are repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains serve to reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
3. repetition- using the same sound, word, phrase, line, or grammatical structure over and over for emphasis.
4. resolution- the resolution of a plot occurs near the end of a story, when all the remaining strands of the story are woven together.
5. rhyme- the repeated use of identical or nearly identical sounds. Poets use rhyme to create a musical sound, meaning, and structure.
- end rhyme occurs when words at the ends of lines of poetry have the same sound. Lines that end with the words bat, cat, sat, or rat would have end thyme.
-internal rhyme occurs when words within a sentence share the same sound. For example: "Each narrow cell in which we dwell." Cell and dwell have internal rhyme because they share the same sound and one of the words is set in the middle of the line.
6. rhyme scheme- a regular pattern of words in a poem that end with the same sound.
7. rhythm- the pattern of stressed and unstressed words that create a beat, as in music.
8. rituals- little habits that provide structure to writers.