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WITCHER
13 days ago
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Which excerpt from Carl Sandburg's "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine H

at" uses onomatopoeia?
1. And when they jumped up and ran out of the potato rows, Mr. Sniggers thought they were boys playing tricks.

2. 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.

3. The train jumped off the tracks down in the valley and cut across in a straight line on a cut-off, jumped on the tracks again and went on toward Ohio.

4. Each blue fox and yellow flongboo got a newspaper for himself and each one looked long and careful upside down to see how he looked in the picture in the newspaper climbing a telephone pole standing on his head eating pink ice cream with an iron ax.

5. Some went to sleep but the two baby blue foxes stayed up all night watching the snow ghosts and telling snow ghost stories to each other.
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Naddik [6.4K]13 days ago
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Answer: 2. 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.

Explanation: An onomatopoeia refers to a stylistic device where words imitate sounds (from any source, be it an animal, object, etc.). Among the provided excerpts, option 2 showcases an example of onomatopoeia, employing the phrases "pitty-pat, pitty-pat" and "scritch scratch" to recreate the sounds made by the blue foxes and yellow flongboos as they scurry with their feet, toenails, ears, and hair.

seraphim [6.2K]13 days ago
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An onomatopoeia is a term that resembles the sound it represents. For example, words like pitter-patter, scritch and scratch. Therefore, I would identify the correct answer as 2.:)
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