Read the excerpt from “sea fever” by john masefield.

and quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.

which sound device is most notable in this excerpt?

alliteration
assonance
onomatopoeia
rhyme

Assonance

Assonance is the repetition of the same vowel sound within a group of words. In the passage the long /e/ sound is repeated in the words sleep, sweet, and dream. Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a group of words. An example would be Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Onomatopoeia is a word that means the same as it sounds. A few examples of onomatopoeia are bang, slap, swish and drip. Rhyme is when two or more words have the same end sound like hop and pop.

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