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Sound Devices
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Alliteration
The repetition of initial consonant sounds, in two or
more neighboring words or syllables.
The wild and wooly walrus waits and wonders when we will walk by.
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees
-- from Silver by Walter de la Mare
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
(almost ALL tongue twisters!)
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Alliteration examples
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Hear the music of voices, the song of a
bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra,
as if you would be stricken deaf
tomorrow. Touch each object as if
tomorrow your tactile sense would fail.
Smell the perfume of flowers
- from Three Days to See by Helen Keller
Alliteration examples
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Assonance examples
I made my way to
the lake.
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Assonance example
The Eagle
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Example:
Examples:
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From Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Did you get it right? aaba
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I am making a pizza the size of the
sun,
a pizza that s sure to weigh more
than a ton,
a pizza too massive to pick up and
toss,
a pizza resplendent with oceans of
sauce.
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Examples :
Examples :
Example:
Hand is to glove : Foot is to sock
Happy is to sad : Hot is to cold
to speak well in the place of the blunt,
disagreeable, terrifying or offensive term.
Example:
Example:
Its raining cats and dogs.
Things got a little out of hand.
Does the cat have your tongue.
A seeming contradiction.
Examples:
It was the best of times. It was the worst of
times.
You shouldn't go in the water until you know how
to swim.
Be cruel to be kind.-from Hamlet by Shakespeare
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading
fairy tales again."(C.S. Lewis to his godchild, Lucy
Barfield, to whom he dedicated The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe)