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Onomatophoeia

What is Onomatopoeia?
a word or a group words that are used
to imitate a sound ( of human, animals,
objects and nature)
It gives sound to words and awakens a
reader’s auditory senses
Onomatopoeia used in sentences

1. The dog will bark at strangers.


2. Shh! We need quiet in here as the baby is sleepong.
3. The car zoomed around the race track at a high speed.
4. Huh? i didn't hear what you said.
OTHER EXAMPLES OF ONOMATOPOEIA WORDS
The Songbird
---By Kelly Roper

The songbird is tweeting


His early morning greeting
Onomatopoeia As he sits on the
in poems Branch of a tree.

The rustling of his wings


Lifts him into the sky
As he thinks,
"It's good to be free."
The Rollercoaster
---By Kelly Roper

Onomatopoeia Clickity-clackety, clickity-clackety,


in poems The rollercoaster went up the track.
With a whoosh and a squeal
Down the smooth rails of steel,
The rollercoaster raced its way back.

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