Monday, 5 March 2012

Name the sound

Onomatopoeia 

 Onomatopoeias are words that imitate the sound you hear with the object they refer to. Onomatopeias can help us to write fun poems like this one:
"It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped,
And whirr when it stood still.
I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will."
(Tom Paxton, "The Marvelous Toy")
And a video here:

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