Question

Read the excerpt from "Safari Day in Kenya.” 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,(where hippos grunt), of the stanza, is an example of which sound device?

onomatopoeia
assonance
alliteration
rhyme

Answer 1

Answer:

the correct answer would be "assonance"

Explanation:

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Answer 2

The underlined portion (where hippos grunt) of the stanza, is an example of this sound device: B. assonance.

What is assonance?

Assonance can be defined as a sound device which involves the deliberate repetition of similar or the same vowel sounds within a sentence or group of successive words i.e words that are in proximity to each other.

Based on the excerpt from "Safari Day in Kenya." we can logically deduce that where hippos grunt is an example of assonance because they all comprise similar vowel sounds.

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