PL I ND HEL Which lines from "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe contain onomatopoeia? Select three options. What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, Keeping time, time, time, From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

The lines from "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe which contains onomatopoeia are:

According to the given question, we are asked to show the lines which contains onomatopoeia and we have to recall that this literary device is used to show how sounds are used to convey a message.

As a result of this, the onomatopoeia which are contained in the lines from "The Bell" are options B, D and E where the author referred to how the tinklings and jingling and chiming had an effect on the reader.

Therefore, the correct answers are options B, D and E

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The lines that contain onomatopoeia are:

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

Explanation:

Onomatopoeia refers to words that represent a sound by imitating it. There are several verbs that come, originally, from imitating a sound, such as to buzz, to clang, to click, etc. Among such verbs, there are to tinkle, to jingle, and to chime, often associated with the sound made by bells. Those are precisely the words that appear in three of the lines in this excerpt of "The Bells". Therefore, the lines we must check are:

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

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