Король, дама, валет tableaux

Caught by the corner of the eye:

sudden flashes of zigzag light   cast by passing windshields

-- Vladimir Nabokov, King, Queen, Knave (1968; originally published 1928, in Russian), p. 213

Contrast,  as seen full-on.

and lo -- through the crack of the door, one glimpses the long back of the cleric, representative of a boundlessly charitable Church, in the act of bending over the white, white bed.

-- Vladimir Nabokov, King, Queen, Knave (1968), p. 172

An audial analog of a tableau might be la petite phrase.   The following, more like an earworm:

She stared   with her fingers pressed to her temples 

at the white,  white,    intolerably white    tablecloth.

-- Vladimir Nabokov, King, Queen, Knave (1968), p. 160