Sound Devices

Repetition of sounds, usually at the ends of words

• alliteration

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

Words that resemble sounds

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• rhyme

The repetition of similar beginning sounds

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

True or False: Alliteration needs to rhyme.

• True

• False

Bang! Pow! Fizz! Crack! I love watching fireworks!

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Slippery seals sleep silently on the seashore.

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Beautiful geese float on the lake. Little fish swim in their wake.

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Drip, drip, plop goes the rain. Splash! It falls on the ground.

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Some bashful bunnies are burrowing in the blackberry bushes.

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

When she put milk in her cereal it went snap, crackle, pop!

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia