Onomatopoeia

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Onomatopoeia

• The Sounds of Language

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• How would you write these sounds?

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• A person laughing
• HAHAHAHAHA

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• Motorcycles
• RRRMMMM

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• A Bell
• Ding! Dong!
• Ting!

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• Water Dripping
• ploop

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• Rooster
• Cock-a-doodle-doo

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• Car horn
• Honk
• Beep

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• Brakes stopping
• Errrrrrch

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• Cracking a whip
• Wa-phish

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• Eating Potato Chips
• Crunch

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• Coyote at night
• OOOOOWWWL

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• What are the advantages of creating poetry with
  onomatopoeia?