Give students a couple of examples of onomatopoeia. Ask students what the words remind them of. For example, you might say, “oink, oink. What's that make you think of?” Students: “Pigs.” You: “Why do those two words make you think of pigs?” Students: “That's the sound they...
Onomatopoeia (n.) The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire. Onomatopoeic (a.) Onomatopoetic. Onomat...
This is a striking metaphor, heartbreaking in its imagery. The speaker laments at the imperfectness of love and language: how, no matter how carefully and precisely a lover chooses the words they use to love another, those words are, inevitably, broken down by “the waves.” What do those...
The word crash is an example of onomatopoeia. That means that the word sounds like its definition. Imagine the noise two things make when they bang into each other. They make the sound, crash!A Story to Practice Crash vs. CrushAnna loves to watch the waves crash against the shore. She ...
Caribbean nation, yet the top prize of Puerto Rican pride goes to a tiny and noisy little frog:the coquí. Tourism advertisements and pop culture have made the coquí famous for its "singing." The name of these tiny amphibians is an onomatopoeia, resembling their cheerful song pretty ...
3)Acoustic phonetics studies the physical properties of the speech sounds, the way sounds travel from the speaker to the hearer; it deals with the sound waves through the use of such machines as a spectrograph(声谱仪). 4.Where are the articulatory apparatus of human being contained?人类的发声...
I know mu is Greek for the letter m, and moo is the sound cows make, but what's a moue? What does trow mean? In Far from the Madding Crowd, what does cavil mean? What does Charles Dickens mean when he says “toadies and humbugs†in his book, Great Expectations?
This is more than onomatopoeia, which is to say, more than mere imitation. When one vocalizes a sound, one gives it to one's own voice, in order to give it its own voice. What is imitated in onomatopoeic voicing is the world's own capacity to give voice, in an enactment of the ...
I know mu is Greek for the letter m, and moo is the sound cows make, but what's a moue? What does trow mean? In Far from the Madding Crowd, what does cavil mean? What does Charles Dickens mean when he says “toadies and humbugs†in his book, Great Expectations?