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24 August, 09:34

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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  1. 24 August, 11:11
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    If the underlined portion of the stanza is where hippos grunt, then it is an example of the sound device known as onomatopoeia.

    Onomatopoeia is a figure of speech in which sounds coming from nature are imitated. So, the verb grunt evokes some animal sounds that can be heard in nature.
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