Examples Of Onomatopoeia My son swooshed the basketball into the net. Shuffle the paper stack again properly. Please do not whisper in the examination hall. The owl hooted as it sat in the tree. Boo. I scared you. Meow, wheres my milk, cried the cat. The jangle of her bracelets caught his attention. Click, click. She made a sound with her tongue to show her displeasure. The rustle of the leaves startled the kids. Pitter-patter rain drops are falling from the sky. My teacher told me to shoosh, because I was making too much noise. The door creaked open in the old mansion. The tires of the sports car halted with a loud screech. Harry mumbled in his mouth that he was not thirsty. The birds like to tweet outside my window. Drip, drip, drip, went the faucet all day long. Grandma loves to hear the pitter-patter of little feet around the house. Zip goes the jacket. In Poetry This figure of speech is widely used in poems rather than in prose writing since it is effective in conveying unusual and vivid images. Its a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes. The trombone pony neighs and the tuba jackass snorts. The banjo tickles and titters too awful. The chippies talk about the funnies in the papers. FromHonky Tonk in Clevelnad, Ohio by Carl Sandburg Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! From The Bellsby Edgar Allan Poe ...Three Queens with crowns of gold-and from them rose A cry that shiverd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills All night in a waste land... From Morte DArthurby Lord Alfred Tennyson Old MacDonald had a farm, EE-I-EE-I-O. And on that farm he had a cow, EE-I-EE-I-O, With a moo-moo here and a moo-moo there Here a moo there a moo everywhere a moo-moo, Old MacDonald had a farm, EE-I-EE-I-O..... From The Old Mac Donald nursery rhyme Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard, He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred; Tlot tlot, tlot tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-hooves, ringing clear; Tlot tlot, tlot tlot, in the distance! Were they deaf that they did not hear? From The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes In Advertising And Media Advertising, media and comics heavily rely on sound effects and this figure of speech exactly conveys that. Onomatopoeic words behave as mnemonics and make sure that the person remembers the catchy slogans or punch lines. The Nickelodeon cartoon Kablams implied to be onomatopoeic as a crash. The marble game KerPlunk is onomatopoeia for the sound of the marbles dropping when sticks have been removed. In Doctor Who comic strips, the sound of the Tardis (clocks) is represented as Vwoooorp! Vwoooorp! Snap, Crackle, Pop when you pour cornflakes on milk is the famous onomatopoeic slogan for the Rice Crispies cereal. Clunk Click, every trip-this is a road safety slogan from a UK campaign which implies, click the seatbelt on after clunking the car door closed. The Dook dook drinking sound effect is depicted in the web comicScary Go Round. Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, oh what a relief it is, an ad for Alka Seltzer tablets when dunked in water. In one issue of Punisher, funt was used as the sound of a fired silenced pistol. Marvel Comicstrademarked two words of their own invention: thwip! the sound of Spider-Mans web shooter and snikt! which is the switchblade-sound of Wolverines claws locking into place. In the Garfield comic strips, there is a running gag about a splut which is the sound of a pie hitting someones face. In The Transformers, the Autobot Warpath spoke with onomatopoeia in his speech, which included Zowie, Wham, Bang, Blam, Zing, Whack, Zack, Zorch, Zang, Woosh, Bam, Zoom, Zap, Boom, Kazowy, Wow, Clang, Pow, Zingo, and Boing among others. From the 1968 movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Jemimah: Its called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Truly Scrumptious: Thats a curious name for a motorcar. Jemimah: But thats the sound it makes. Listen. Its saying chitty chitty, chitty chitty, chitty chitty, chitty chitty, chitty chitty, bang bang! chitty chitty ... You have probably figured out the role that onomatopoeia plays in portraying feelings or expressions, to the extent that they are as effective as simple adjectives. Zip, zap and zooom! - See more at: fos.iloveindia/onomatopoeia-examples.html#sthash.mnKZFChd.dpuf Read more at fos.iloveindia/onomatopoeia-examples.html#2p38spHF6elOvPZe.99
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