Question

Which excerpt from Carl Sandburg's "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat" uses onomatopoeia?
1. And when they jumped up and ran out of the potato rows, Mr. Sniggers thought they were boys playing tricks.

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.

3. The train jumped off the tracks down in the valley and cut across in a straight line on a cut-off, jumped on the tracks again and went on toward Ohio.

4. Each blue fox and yellow flongboo got a newspaper for himself and each one looked long and careful upside down to see how he looked in the picture in the newspaper climbing a telephone pole standing on his head eating pink ice cream with an iron ax.

5. Some went to sleep but the two baby blue foxes stayed up all night watching the snow ghosts and telling snow ghost stories to each other.
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Answer 1

An Onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like what it means. Like pitted-patter, scritch and scratch. So I would say the answer is 2. :)

Answer 2

Answer: 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: An onomatopoeia is a figure of speech that consists in creating or using words that imitate a sound (it can be any sound, from an animal, an object, etc.). In the given excerpts, the one that contains an example of onomatopoeia is the option 2. It uses the words "pitty-pat, pitty-pat" and "scritch scratch" to imitate the sound of the blue foxes and yellow flongboos pattering with their feet, toenails, ears and hair.