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Comparing Poetry: Poetic Devices — Quiz

Question 5 • CP English Language 1

Which lines from "The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe contain onomatopoeia? Choose three correct answers.

Answer
A
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
B
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
C
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
D
Keeping time, time, time,
E
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

Explanation

Onomatopoeia uses words that imitate sounds. “Jingling,” “tinkling,” “tinkle,” “rhyming,” and “chiming” echo the sounds made by bells. So the lines “From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells,” “How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,” and “To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!” contain onomatopoeia.

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