Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Working with Words - Onomatopeia

Go on a hunt and tell us what you find.

20 comments:

  1. According to Thesaurus,it means to 'copy' or 'repeat'. Its a noun.

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    1. Don't you mean dictionary? you can't look things up in the thesauras

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    2. PINEAPPLES1008, You spelt Thesaurus wrong!

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  2. onomatopoeia is a word that imitates a sound of another thing

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  3. an onomatopoeia is just noises like meow or roar

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  4. an onomatopoeia is a word that refers to common noises that are not actually words (like animals noises Oink, Ruff, Meow etc.)
    it comes from greece, coming from the greek word ὀνοματοποιία

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  5. Let me start with an example:
    Zip goes the jacket.
    This is an onomatopoeia because it sounds like a jacket zipping up. Some more words are, boom, bang, slash, slurp, gurgle, meow and wolf. An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like it does in real life. This used to start from the Greek work I make and the year was 1557.

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  6. An Otomatopeia Is A Word That Is Used As A Noise (Eg. Meow, Boom, Woof, Oink, Ect.).
    It Comes From Greek νοματοποιία. It Directly Means I Make.

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  7. Another one is examples in comics of someone doing something like Smack when someone is hit.

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  8. Onomatopeia is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound...example: "the creeper went Boom." Boom being the Onomatopeia, the word croak is an Onomatopeia describing a frog making a noise with its throat, or drinking being "Dook Dook" it is used to imitate a noise of the source, maybe rubbing a dog together with a cat would make a "shook shook" sound depends on the writer and what he/she visualizes!

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  9. Onomatopeia is a describing word that is also a verb. It is on "Rice Krispies". It is " Snap, Crackle, Pop!"

    Gemini01

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  10. a word that explains a sound(vroom).

    click clock click clock click clock went the horse as it walked down the cobble stone road.

    slurp slurp my drink went as i drank.

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  11. an onomtopoeia is widley used in comic books or strips.

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  12. onomatopoeia is just noises like oink,meow and roar

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  13. words like SPLASH,KABOOM,KERPLUNK. there like words to show sounds that objects make like a dog going woof

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  14. the word onomatopoeia was thought to be first used around 1577
    the word onomatopoeia means "word making" greece an example of an onomatopoeia is: snap goes the tree branch. Guess what it's a blabity word and sometimes is used to catch a reader's attention.

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  15. a verb that describes a sound ex.
    the cow went KAPOW and he is a villan that makes random sounds *oink* and *moooo* or possibly *rawr!* i thought it was a description or something well i could be like
    *snap* *crackle* *pop!* they are easy to invent
    like *kashram!* or something

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  16. onomatopoeia is an imatation of a sound or noise.

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  17. here is an onomatopoeia joke:

    knock knock
    whos there
    boo
    boo who
    don't cry I was only joking

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  18. Onomatopoia is an imatation of a noise. (Meow, honk. beep...)

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