onomatopoeia
[ on-uh-mat-uh-pee-uh, ‐mah-tuh‐ ]
Synonyms for onomatopoeia
- imitation
- parallel
- reflection
- repetition
- reverberation
- answer
- mirror
- parroting
- rebound
- reiteration
- repercussion
- reply
- reproduction
- ringing
- mirror image
- rubber stamp
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR ONOMATOPOEIA
Mao, the term for a "cat," is obviously an example of onomatopoeia.
Onomatopoeia, formations of words resembling in sound that of the things denoted by them.
All words which were spontaneously acquired seemed to be instances of onomatopoeia.
RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR ONOMATOPOEIA
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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