A word which represents or imitates natural sounds Words such as plop buzz or snap make sounds that suggest their meaning Onomatopoeia provides sound effects and appears in poetry advertising and childrens stories ID: 323927
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Onomatopoeia
A word which represents or imitates natural sounds.
Words, such as plop, buzz, or snap, make sounds that suggest their meaning. Onomatopoeia provides sound effects and appears in poetry, advertising, and children’s stories.Slide2
For example:
From the
jingling and the tingling of the bellsHow they clang, and crash, and roar!The BellsEdgar Allan Poe
Another example:
Dim drums
throbbing
, in the hills half heard…
Strong gongs
groaning
as the guns
boom
far.
Lepanto
G.K. ChestertonSlide3
A third example:
Rattle-rattle, rattle-rattle,
Bing!Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom,A roaring, epic, rag-time tuneFrom the mouth of the CongoThe CongoVachel Lindsay
One final example:
…let your trombones ooze, and go
husha-husha-hush with the slippery sandpaper.
Jazz Fantasia
Carl SandburgSlide4
Sample sentences using onomatopoeia -
Her taffeta dress rustled to the rhythm of her dancing.
The sudden, long hissing of the slithering snake startled her.Now murmuring, now sighing, the pine trees responded to the wind.
The drill’s repeated jagged whirring crowded out every other sound.
He fought against the swish, swish of the window wipers putting him to sleep.
A half-detached muffler jangled as it played tag with the road.
Barking, yelping, and yawping welcomed us to the dog pound.
Announcement of the shower’s end came from the drip, drip of the rainwater.Slide5
Select two of these sentences and rewrite the sentences exchanging one of the words for an onomatopoeia word.
For example:
The firecrackers explode. The firecrackers bang!A tree branch breaks.
A water faucet leaks.
A door bell rings.
A mirror breaks.
A cymbal is struck.
Some onomatopoeia words are: whoosh, snap, crash, plop, boom, crash, shatter, ding-dong, clang, whisper, & ring.Slide6
Jabberwocky Class Activity
Form a group of four. Using the stanza you were given, decide what part of speech each underlined word is. Remember nouns are persons, places, things, ideas and qualities; verbs are action words; and adjectives describe nouns.
Lewis Carroll understood the inherent qualities of word sounds and invented words of his own. He explained that he would take two words like fuming and furious and try to say them together to convey both of their meanings in one word – FRUMIOUS. His poem “Jabberwocky” contains many nonsense words. As readers, our job is to figure out what the words mean by their placement or part of speech.
“Twas
brillig
, and the
slithy
toves
Did
gyre
and
gimble
in the
wabeAll mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.
Nouns: toves, wabe, borogoves
Verbs: gyre, gimble, raths, outgrabe
Adjectives: brillig, slithy, mimsy