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TSI Reading: Recognizing the Rhetorical Effect of Onomatopoeia 17 Views


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What effect do the words "hiss," "whizzed," and "chattered" have on the passage?

(A)They allow the reader to visualize the action.
(B)They provide auditory details for the reader.
(C)They create better descriptions of the characters.
(D)They describe the time and place of the story.


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Yeah Okay see Reading analyzers Last of the three questions

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here on ricky ticky and his friends What affected the

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words hiss wisdom and chattered have on the passage we

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got on um on a pia going here in a

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different kind of pia Well let's see we've skimmed through

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and we're thinking about it And these are kind of

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like sound effects in a movie like you we're seeing

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it dark jungle and then all the action is what

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you hear right Just kind of off screen So that's

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kind of good writing Alright Well with sound mimicking words

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such as hiss wisden chattered the author's using the specific

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literary device it's on ahmad apia it's a word that

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intrinsically is linked with the sound it describes When we

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read the word hiss for example our brain conjures up

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the sounds that the snake makes you know when its

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tongue is doing that back and forth thing well these

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auditory details help us get into the story and experience

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the action in a sensory way So they're auditory We

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hear them and they add details So the answer here

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is b and now let's go to the loser bowl

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here Who we didn't pick Sorry guys just keeping it

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real that we couldn't pick you for this question but

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well we'll pick you next time maybe maybe not Well

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while some words help us visualize the scene these specific

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words engage the readers Auditory imagination got it so it's

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not visualize the action so can't be a good hiss

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whizzed chattered certainly bring up the animal's movements tto life

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but well his words don't directly support their character development

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Or do they describe the story setting like there's Nothing

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about strategically using the length of the grass to sneak

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up on riki tiki and stuff like that just didn't

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happen Not in this story You can only use what's

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in these few paragraphs here That's it the answer's b

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They provide auditory details for the reader Q five dollar

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word on amano pia you can use that to impress 00:01:51.45 --> [endTime] and amaze your friends at cocktail parties

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