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?
a. onomatopoeia
b. assonance
c. alliteration
d. rhyme

Which sentence about subject-verb agreement is not true? a. singular subjects go with singular verbs. b. plural subjects go with plural verbs. c. when the subject and the verb go together, they agree. d. plural verbs go with singular subjects.

Choose the best paraphrase of bashes haiku an old silent pond a frog jumps into the pond splash silence again a.the pond was silent until the frog jumped in splashing now alternates with quiet b.a pond will never be silent after one frog jumps into it and starts splashing around c. a frog jumps into a quiet pond there is a splash then all is quiet once more d. there was once an accident body of water that a frog splashed into and died

Which characteristic is common to memoirs? a. they analyze all sides of a particular issue. b. they give the entire life story of an author. c. they may include fictional characters. d. they are written in first-person point of view.