Question

Which excerpt from Carl Sandburg's "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat" uses repetition and alliteration?

Answer 1

The correct answer is this one: "They went to the railroad stations and bought tickets for the fast trains and the slow trains and even the trains that back up and run backward instead of where they start to go." This is the line of the excerpt from Carl Sandburg's "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat" that uses repetition and alliteration.

Answer 2

The repetition and alliteration are used in "Then the blue foxes and the yellow flongboos pattered pitty-pat, pitty-pat, each with feet and toenails, ears and hair, everything except tails, patter scritch scratch over the stone floor out into the train shed."

How are alliterations and repetition used?

The art of using words to mimic sounds is known as onomatopoeia. It is the process of creating words from noises such as "buzz, crack, hiss, swoosh, boom, gurgle, etc."

Onomatopoeic words are those whose meanings are the same as the sounds they produce.

The second choice in the excerpts is the one that employs onomatopoeia.

Onomatopoeic words include "pitty-pat, pitty-pat" and "patter scritch scratch," which are the sounds made by the "feet and toenails, ears, and hair." There are no onomatopoeic words or sounds in the remaining phrases.

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