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 of the stanza is an example of which sound device?
onomatopoeia
assonance
alliteration
rhyme
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
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GPT-4o mini
The underlined portion "grunt in mud-baths" is an example of **onomatopoeia**. This sound device refers to words that imitate the natural sounds associated with them. In this case, "grunt" mimics the sound that hippos make.
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