Elements of Modernism: Mastery Test Which excerpt from Carl Sandburg's "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat" uses onomatopoeia?

The correct answer is 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

Onomatopoeia is a word used to represent and imitate a sound in a story. Some typical examples of onomatopoeia are "boom," "clap," "bang," "knock," "bing," "click," "bang," "caboom." According to the above, it can be inferred that the correct answer is "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" because it uses onomatopoeia such as" scritch scratch "and "pitty-pat, pitty-pat" that help the reader get a mental idea of the sounds of patter. So the correct answer is 2.

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