onomatopoeia

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onomatopoeia

• The use of words that sound like the noise they
  name or that are spelled the way they sound.

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Examples

• Bam
• Bang
• Beep
• Boing
• Boom
• Burp
• Boosh
• Clap
• Crackle
• Ding-dong

• Hiccup
• Ka-boom
• Ping pong
• Plop
• Poof
• Thud
• Tick-tock
• Squish
• Swoosh
• Zap

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Machine sounds

• Aside from the above, machines are usually
  described with
• Automobile- "honk" for the horn, "vroom" for the
  engine, and "screech" for the tires
• Train - "clickety-clack" crossing a junction and
  "choo-choo" for the whistle.
• Cash register cha-ching

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Animal sounds

• For animal sounds, these onomatopoeia are
  typically used in English
• Bird - "chirp", "tweet"
• Chicken - "cluck"
• Crow - "caw"
• Dove - "coo"
• Duck - "quack"
• Owl - "hoo" or "hoot"
• Rooster - "cock-a-doodle-doo"
• Turkey - "gobble"
• Insects - "buzz"

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Animal sounds continued

• Mammals
• Cat - "meow" and "purr"
• Cow - "moo"
• Dog - "woof", "ruff"
• Donkey - "hee-haw"
• Frog - "ribbit", "croak (amphibian)
• Mouse/Rat - "squeak"
• Pig - "oink", "wee-wee-wee"
• Sheep - "baa"
• Reptiles
• Snake - "hiss", "sss"

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More Onomatopoeias

• ba-boom
• bang
• bam
• bark
• bawl
• beep
• belch
• bing
• blab
• blare
• bling
• blurt
• boing
• bong
• bonk
• boom
• bow-wow
• bump

• burble
• burp
• buzz
• ca-ching
• cheep (parot)
• chop
• clang
• clank
• clap
• clatter
• click
• cock-a-doodle-doo
• crack
• crackle
• crash
• crash-boom (lightning strike)
• cuckoo
• ding

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Even More Onomatopoeias

• ding-dong
• dong
• drip
• fwat
• gasp
• goosh
• grumble
• grunt
• gurgle
• hee-haw (donkey)
• hiccup
• hiss
• honk
• huff
• hum
• hurl
• ka-blam
• ka-boom

• klap (Spanish for gunshot)
• meow
• moo
• murmur
• oink
• ping-pong
• plop
• poof
• pop, popped, popping
• puff
• quack
• rat-tat-tat-tat (beginning of machine gun fire)
• ring
• roar
• roared
• rustle
• scratch

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And Still More Onomatopoeias

• screech
• sigh
• sizzle
• sniff
• spit
• splash
• splat
• splut
• squawk
• squeak
• squeal
• squelch
• squish
• swoosh
• tat-tat-tat-tat

• thump
• thwap
• tick
• tick-tock
• ting
• tink
• tock
• tweet tweet
• vroom
• wham
• woosh
• yip yip (dog screaming)
• zang
• zap
• zip
• zoom
• zzzzz

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Assignment

• Write a fable containing at least 15
  onomatopoeias.
• Please make your onomatopoeias stand out from the
  rest of your writing.
• For example The fox howled at the moon.
• 1 point for each onomatopoeia and 5 points for
  writing quality (20 points total)
• The draft of this assignment is due on Wednesday,
  March 25th

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What is a fable?

• A story that features animals, plants, inanimate
  objects, or forces of nature which are
  personified and that have a moral lesson (a
  "moral"), which may at the end be expressed in a
  maxim.
• Maxim examples
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
• A friend in need is a friend indeed.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss.
• You can't tell a book by its cover.
• Birds of a feather flock together.