Question

Kimani stops at a watering hole, where hippos grunt in mud-baths,
Baboons play in a nearby tree, like children out at camp

The underlined portion of the stanza is an example of which sound device?


onomatopoeia

assonance

alliteration

rhyme

Answer 1

Which portion is underlined?

Answer 2

where hippos grunt

Answer 3

Okay, what do you think the correct answer is?

Answer 4

2nd choice

Answer 5

Onomatopoeia- the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ).

Assonance- in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ).

Alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Rhyme- A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs.

Answer 6

Can you come to a conclusion from those definitions?

Answer 7

onomatopoeia

Answer 8

That is correct. :)