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?

“Grunt” imitates the sound that a hippo makes, so it is an example of onomatopoeia. Alliteration repeats beginning consonant sounds, while rhyme and assonance involve repeated sounds at the ends of words or vowel sounds.

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