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 enlarge | Creators: Clement Wood, Ronald J. Bogus
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
Buy New: $4.14
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 14194
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 720
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0440212057
Dewey Decimal Number: 031
EAN: 9780440212058
ASIN: 0440212057
Publication Date: March 1, 1992
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| Customer Reviews:
 One of my favorites March 19, 2008
This is a book you will cherish. I had a copy for many years, and then somehow lost it in a move. I'll be buying a new copy now.
I love the fact that in addition to the huge resource of rhymes, this book has a treasure trove of information on poetry.
Great for kids, adults and pretty much everyone! I highly recommend this book!
excellent ! March 8, 2008
This book is so awesome. It breaks the words in many catagoreys. Ive used it fir country rock and hiphop, I dont get writers block anymore
Great tool! November 15, 2007
This is a must-have tool for the poet, writer and craftsperson of all written word.
A good tool for writing November 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is pretty damn good, and is a great value too. I took the advice of another reviewer and just skipped the directions and dove right in. That's the best way to use this book, poke around and see what it has to offer. There's a pronunciation key at the bottom of each page to remind you of their conventions, and once you get used to how the book is organized it is easy to use. This book is also very complete, even stretching conventions a little. I would add, though, that it should not be your only rhyming dictionary. Use it in conjunction with the Penguin Rhyming Dictionary or some other indexed type to give you the best coverage.
Not for Perfect Rhymers January 26, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
For a person who limits rhyming to only perfect rhyme (example: say and day,) The Complete Rhyming Dictionary is too complicated and complete for them. These rhymers should really purchase an alphabetized volume of rhymes.
Wood's book is arranged by vowel sound, not alphabet. If a reader looks up the sound----long "a" as in the word day-----, he will see words such as say, day, lay, may etc. But what if none of these perfect word rhymes fit sensibly into a poem that you were working on? A rhymer might need to deviate slightly off from these 'perfects', still get good rhyme, and make sense within their poem. Wood's work makes this approach easy. All a reader has to do is look at columns next to the long "a" sound and find a multitude of other words to work with. For instance, the word "day" is close in rhyme to "afraid". A poem writer can use these two words which are definitely not perfect rhyme, but close enough. This close-enough approach is used especially in song lyric writing. When sung the "d" in afraid is hardly noticeable. A listener of music will only really hear the long "a" sound and think it is perfect rhyme.
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