Onomatopoeia

Examples Help! What is the definition of Onomatopoeia?

How do you define Onomatopoeia? What is a Onomatopoeia? The word derives from the Latin word onomatopoiia meaning the process of making words, which derives from onoma, a name, and poiein, to make. Plural :onomatopoeias. Common mis-spelling : onomatapoeia. The definition of Onomatopoeia is as follows:

English Grammar & Terminology Definition of Onomatopoeia - a poetic device
Definition: The use of words that imitate the sound they denote. A figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents such as the buzz of bees 
Definition of Onomatopoeia - a poetic device

Figure of Speech Examples

Examples of Onomatopoeia words

Words where the pronunciation conveys the meaning include slam, hiss, bash, snap, buzz, screech, whirr, crush, sizzle, crunch, gouge, grind, mangle, bang, pow, zap and fizz.

Examples of Onomatopoeia in Poems & Poetry

Poems with Onomatopoeia examples can be found by the most famous poets including Tennyson and Pope

  • “I heard the ripple washing in the reeds / And the wild water lapping on the crag” from Morte D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,
    The line too labors, and the words move slow;
    Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,
    Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
    From An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope

Examples of Onomatopoeia Poems

Examples Help! Use of Onomatopoeia in Poems & Poetry

Examples of Onomatopoeia can be found in many examples of the poem, poems or poetry. Famous poets use this figure of speech to convey and emphasize unusual and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment to literary works.

Examples Help - Figures of Speech - Onomatopoeia

In Figurative Language we use words in such a way that they differ somewhat from ordinary every-day speech and convey meanings in a more vivid and impressive manner. Figures, like Onomatopoeia make speech more effective, they beautify and emphasize it in Rhetoric which is the art of speaking and writing effectively. Figures of speech such as Onomatopoeia use word association to convey emotion and mood often in a non-literal sense.

Examples Help! Using Onomatopoeia

Figures of speech such as Onomatopoeia adds adornment, beautifies, colors, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exaggeration, exclamation, flourish, floweriness, irony, lushness and luxuriance to the English language. This page providing facts and info about Figures of Speech will help with the understanding of this subject.

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Onomatopoeia

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