Onomatopoeia

Crash!!! By Siddharth

Boom!
Bam!
Zip!
Splash!
Bash!

Welcome all!!
 Figures of Speech
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Idioms
• Onomatopoeias
• Alliteration
 Onomatopoeia is?

• Figure of speech
• Words that are formed by the sound an object makes.
• When you read onomatopoeias, it makes a sound
• Onomatopoeias can be classified depending on which object makes
the sound.
1. Machines
2. Humans
3. Animals
4. Banging Noises
 Need for onomatopoeias - Reasons

When John was driving the car, suddenly another car

screeched and stopped behind his car. Woo Woo!! .He
thought it was a bang on his car.

There are
Clarity 4 reasons
– Author why
gives onomatopoeias/figures
extra of speech
details to make the event are used
clearer/real life experience.

Fun/Emotion - Author/character expresses his/her feelings.

Emphasis - Author gives importance to the event.

Interest – Author makes the story more interesting for readers.

 Human Sounds-
Animal Noises – 1. Shush
1.Woof 2. Giggle
2.Oink 3. Achoo
3.Meow 4. Burp
4.Hee –Haw
5. Neigh

Crashing Noises
1. Bang
Onomatop 2. Bam
oeias 3. Splash
Machine Noises- 4. Crash
1. Honk 5. Splat
2. Beep
3. Clang
4. Vroom

Mind map
Activity For Onomatopoeias

• In the word search in the next slide, there

are 11 onomatopoeias hidden. You will
be given 5 minutes to spot these 11
onomatopoeias. At the end, we will
check your results. Good luck!

• You may highlight the answers or write

the words on your notebook.
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n s l a p g i v u l o t s o c

n b v p p d w q s b a m m n m

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