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: