Question

What literary device does the following passage employ?
"There ain't a foot o'ground she don't know her way over, and the wild creatures counts her one o' themselves. Squer'ls she'll tame to come an' feed right out o' her hands, and all sorts o' birds. Last winter she got the jaybirds to bangeing here, and I believe she'd 'a' scanted herself of her own meals to have plenty to throw out amongst 'em, if I hadn't kep' watch."

a) assonance
b) foreshadowing
c) symbolism
d) dialect

Answer 1

i havnt read the story but i would pick a or c
@wolfe8

Answer 2

Eh, it's a dialect that's for sure. But I'm not sure if that's a literary device.

Answer 3

Well, thank you both.

Answer 4

You're welcome

Answer 5

Assonance - Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in: "that dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea" (William Butler Yeats).

Foreshadowing - To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage.

Symbolism - The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.

Dialect - A regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists: wingspanney is a dialect of English.

Just typing in definitions if this helped a little more to understand it...

Answer 6

Thank you @Wonkybear

Answer 7

You're welcome.
@BlvckNight

Answer 8

I just did this test; it is dialect.