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WorksheetsSound Devices (Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatop
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 11mins
"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
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street
onomatopoeia
alliteration
consonance
assonance
“I’m getting married in the morning!
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.”
onomatopoeia
alliteration
consonance
assonance
There were no drums or saxophones, / But just the clatter of their bones, / Rolling, rattling carefree circus, / Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas
onomatopoeia
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consonance
assonance
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
onomatopoeia
alliteration
consonance
assonance
"Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?"
onomatopoeia
alliteration
consonance
assonance
Peep the style and the way the cops sweat us
The number one question is, Can the Feds get us?
onomatopoeia
alliteration
consonance
assonance
Straight out of Kansas City, yeah we made it out there
Celebrated, graduated, made it pass/fail
Sassy, classy, Kool-Aid with the kale
onomatopoeia
alliteration
consonance
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