Thursday, March 12, 2009

Do you know what is "Onomatopoeia?"

I didn't before, so it's sort of my new word, and I think it is a rather interesting word. So I am going to share this brilliant new word with you guys:)

Onomatopoeia is the forming and use of words and phrases to imitate or suggest the sounds they describe, such as bang, whisper, cuckoo, splash and fizz. Onomatopoeia is one of the resources of language more often used by poets than prose writers; this is because poetry is made for the ear as well as the eye, and depends more heavily than prose does on sound-effects.

And here is a famous and awesome poem that uses lots of onomatopoeia and it's nice:)

On the Ning Nang Nong


On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

Spike Milligan

Isn't it brilliant? Onomatopoeia...onomatopoeia...onomatopoeia...

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nice.

Though it sounds somewhat like my patients' speech.

:p

6:50 AM  

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