Sibilance
Sibilance (SIB-uh-luhns) is a type of alliteration in which the “s”, “sh”, soft “c” or “z” sounds repeat to create a variety of moods. Like consonance, it can occur anywhere in a word. “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought | I summon up remembrance of things past” Sonnet 30. Sometimes it is used for onomatopoeia effects as when Edgar Allen Poe used it in The Raven, “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.“
Quotes including the Figure of Speech Sibilance
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
Read the SonnetWhen to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,Alliteration & Sibilance
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:Alliteration
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
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