Sound Devices And Examples

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Tiny Tim trotted on.

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

“Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
Long ‘o’ sounds.

Question 3

Rhyme

Answer 3

Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary,

Question 4

Anaphora

Answer 4

And needy nothing trimm’d in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplac’d,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,

Question 5

Sibilance

Answer 5

the slithering snake slithered softly forwards hissing.

Question 6

Consonants

Answer 6

T’, ‘S’, ‘J’, ‘G’ sounds are all…