Sound figure (language)

The sound figures form a subset of the stylistic devices or rhetorical figures . They denote all stylistic devices that evoke an association through the sound of the words they have changed.

The following stylistic devices can be assigned to the sound figures:

• alliteration
• assonance
• Etymological figure
• Homoioteleuton
• Interjection
• cacophony
• Onomatopoeia
• Paromoion
• Paronomasia
• Polyptoton
• Variatio
• Diaphora

See also:

• Pictorial figure
• Sentence figure
• Word figure
• List of rhetorical stylistic devices
• Vowel color ladder