Sound Devices (Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatop

"Hear the mellow wedding bells,

Golden bells!

What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!"

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

“He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.”

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

"Zach sneezed when he heard jazz music."

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

"Hey, wait! Don't blame me! Nate and James are the perpetrators!"

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

Tiffany's offensive remarks disturbed Jeffrey and the other staff-members.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume ...

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

"What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!

In the silence of the night,

How we shiver with affright

At the melancholy menace of their tone!

For every sound that floats

From the rust within their throats

Is a groan."

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

“It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped,

And whirr when it stood still.

I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will.”

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow

From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -

Nameless here for evermore"

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance