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Using words that imitate the sound they denote
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onomatopoeia
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Onomatopoeia is the only album by Jonny 5 + Yak, with Jonny 5 later going on to form the band Flobots , released locally in 2001. The album featured David Gralow on guitar, Terrence Favors on cello, and Jaymz Haynes on bass. The album has since been re-printed ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The phonetic sequences involved in either onomatopoeia or sound symbolism are clearly not to be considered semantic constituents. ▪ This phenomenon is distinct from onomatopoeia - it is sometimes called sound symbolism: there ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Onomatopoeia \On`o*mat`o*p[oe]"ia\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; 'o`noma, 'ono`matos, a name + poiei^n to make.] (Philol.) The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (obsolete spelling of onomatopoeia English)
Usage examples of onomatopoeia.
The basic form of dolphin/dolphin communication in this view would be a sort of aural onomatopoeia, a drawing of audio frequency pictures- in this case, caricatures of a shark.
There are lots of bells and whistles, too - onomatopoeia, incremental repetition, stream of consciousness, interior dialogue, changes of verbal tense (it has become quite fashionable to tell stories, especially shorter ones, in the present tense), the sticky question of back story (how do you get it in and how much of it belongs), theme, pacing (we'll touch on these last two), and a dozen other topics, all of which are covered - sometimes at exhausting length - in writing courses and standard writing texts.