Read these lines from the poem
O the engineer's joys! to go with a locomotive! To hear the hiss of steam, the merry shriek, the steam-whistle, the laughing locomotive! To push with resistless way and speed off in the distance.
"A Song of Joys" by Walt Whitman.
The poet uses onomatopoeia, words that
mimic sounds, to show...
Select one:
the engineer sounds like a locomotive.
the locomotive sounds like it is speeding.
the whistle sounds like it is screaming.
the hiss of the whistle sounds like laughter.