alliteration - the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or within words
Five miles meandering with mazy motion
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Kubla Khan)
The turtle lives ‘twixt plated decks In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
Which partially conceal its sex. I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were,
I think it clever of the turtle In habite as an hermite unholy of workes,
In such a fix to be so fertile. Went wyde in this world wondres to here.
- Ogden Nash (“The Turtle”) - William Langland ("Piers the Plowman")
* Notice the repetition of the “t” sound * Notice the repetition of the "s" sound and
and the “x” sound in “The Turtle.” "w" sound in "Piers the Plowman."
assonance - the close repetition of vowel sounds between different consonant sounds (they are not exact rhymes)
Whinnying, neighed the maned blue wind
- Edith Sitwell (“The Drum”)
“mad as a hatter” “time out of mind” “free and easy” “slapdash”
onomatopoeia - the use of words whose sound imitates the sound of the thing being named
bark clang hum hiss
meow twitter buzz crack
Examples:
Old MacDonald had a farm,
Ee i ee i oh!
And on that farm he had some chickens,
Ee i ee i oh!
With a cluck-cluck here,
And a cluck-cluck there
Old MacDonald had a farm,
Ee i ee i oh!
And on that farm he had some dogs,
Ee i ee i oh!
With a woof-woof here,
And a woof-woof-woof there
Here a woof, there a woof,
Everywhere a woof-woof
Old MacDonald had a farm
Ee i ee i oh!
Old MacDonald had a farm,
Ee i ee i oh!
And on that farm he had some turkeys,
Ee i ee i oh!
With a gobble-gobble gobble-gobble here,
And a gobble-gobble gobble-gobble there
Here a gobble-gobble, there a gobble-gobble,
Everywhere a gobble-gobble-gobble
Old MacDonald had a farm
Ee i ee i oh!
Old MacDonald had a farm,
Ee i ee i oh!
And on that farm he had some cows,
Ee i ee i oh!
With a moo-moo here,
And a moo-moo there
Here a moo, there a moo,
Everywhere a moo-ooo
Old MacDonald had a farm,
Ee i ee i oh!
Here you can see some eхamples for onomatopeia