Question

Which line from "Safari Day in Kenya” contains an example of assonance? “There!” Someone whispers, and all heads turn Gazelles race by, blurred brown streaks, A family of elephants meanders, trunks dance to unheard chorus. Not a word speak the tourists, as we fill the teeming jeep

Answer 1

" Not A Word Speak The Tourists " is the correct example for the Assonance

Because, Assonance is the repetition of a Vowel sound throughout a verse which creates the internal rhyme.

Here, "Word" and "Tourists" have the vowel O . So it is example for Assonance

Answer 2

Assonance

1. heads turn Gazelles race

2. A family of elephants meanders,

3. fill the teeming jeep

Explanation:

• Alliteration is a very important figure of speech based on the concept of sound.
• This literary device involves the repetition of a particular sound be it a consonant or a vowel.
• When the consonant sound is repeated in neighbouring words whose vowel sounds are different it is referred to as ‘Consonance’.
• The opposite happens when a vowel sound is repeated.  Usually a stressed syllable when repeated in consecutive words is referred to as assonance.
• In the given extract the following lines show assonance:

• Hea-ds turn Ga-zelles r-ace by

• The words ‘heads, ga-zelles and race’ have the repetition of the vowel phoneme /e/
• A fam-il-y of el-ephants me-anders,

• In the three words the phoneme /i/ is repeated.
• F-ill the t-eem-ing j-eep
• The vowel phonemes /i/ and /i:/ are repeated in fill and -ing; teem and jeep respectively.

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