Gretchen Raymond

English

14 May, 17:18

Match each sound device to the excerpt in which it is used. alliteration onomatopoeia assonance Tlot-tlot, in the frosty silence! Tlot-tlot, in the echoing night! Nearer he came and nearer. Her face was like a light. Her eyes grew wide for a moment; she drew one last deep breath, (Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman") I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze ... (William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud") The breezes blew, the white foam flew, The furrow follow'd free: We were the first that ever burst Into that silent Sea. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner")