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
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It should be assonance.
According to Oxford Advanced Dictionary assonance is the sound effect created in two syllables of the same word. These syllables are close together and either have the same vowel sound, but different consonants, or the same consonants, but different vowels. The examples are: ‘sonnet, porridge, cold, and killed’.
In the given excerpt ‘Kimani stops at a watering hole, where hippos grunt in mud-baths, Baboons play in a nearby tree, like children out at camp’ we have two such words: ‘hippos’ and ‘baboons’.
The correct answer to this question is Option A)- Onomatopoeia.
Here the underlined portion of the stanza is an example of onomatopoeia.
As grunt is the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.
Onomatopoeia is when a word's pronunciation imitates its sound.
Example- The dog said bow bow. Here bow bow is an onomatopoeia.