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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?

onomatopoeia
assonance
alliteration
rhyme

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I believe it is assonance.
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The underlined portion of the stanza is an example of assonance because it is a repetition of vowel sound without repeating the consonants.

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