Sounds
Check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.
1. The phrase “descending dewdrops” is an example of
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2. Quack, bang, choo-choo, and sizzle are examples of
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3. The lines “And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling, / And sounding and bounding, and rounding” from Robert Southey’s “The Cataract of Lodore” are examples of
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4. The repetition of the same vowel sounds in nearby words is
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5. In Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “God’s Grandeur,” how does sound enhance the theme of the following line: “Why do men then now not reck his [God’s] rod?” (that is, “Why aren’t people more obedient to God?”)?
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