Onomatopoeia

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Onomatopoeia

• From selected poems

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What is onomatopoeia?

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From Dirge by Kenneth Fearing

• And wow he died as wow he lived
• Going whop to the office and blooie home to sleep
  and biff got married and bam had children and oof
  got fired,
• Zowie did he live and zowie did he die
• Very much missed by the circulation staff of the
  New York Evening Post deeply, deeply mourned by
  the B.M.T.
• Wham, Mr. Roosevelt pow, Sears Roebuck awk, big
  dipper bop, summer rain Bong, Mr., bong, Mr.,
  bong, Mr., bong.

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From hist whist by e.e. cummings

• little hoppy happy
• toads in tweeds
• tweeds
• little itchy mousies
• with scuttling
• eyes rustle and run and
• hidehidehide
• whisk
• whisk look out for the old woman
• with the wart on her nose
• what shell do to yer
• nobody knows

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From What the Motorcycle Said by Mona van Duyn

• Bram rackety-am-m, OM, Am
• All r-r-room, r-r-ram, alabaster
• Am, the worlds my oyster.
• I hate plastic, wear it black and slick,
• Hate hardhats, wear one on my head,
• Thats what the motorcycle said.