What quality of the locomotives does the consonance of the s and sh sounds in the sentence below suggest? I hear the locomotives rushing and roaring, and the shrill steamwhistle.

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Jordyn Taylor

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26 November, 20:18

What quality of the locomotives does the consonance of the s and sh sounds in the sentence below suggest? I hear the locomotives rushing and roaring, and the shrill steamwhistle.

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Reece Perkins · Answer 1

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In the excerpt, the speaker uses a type of repetition, which is a rhetorical device that repeats the same words or phrases a few time; there are many types and in this case, the repetition is used as an onomatopoeia, a device that recreates the sound of an animal or an object, in this case, it reinforces the idea of movement through the s and sh.