Thesaurus / onomatopoeia
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- allegory
- allusion
- analogy
- anticlimax
- antithesis
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- metaphor
- ornament
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- analogue
- understatement
- adumbration
- alliteration
- anaphora
- antistrophe
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metonymy
- oxymoron
- proteron
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- way of speaking
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Few words are as fun to say as onomatopoeia, but what the boing does it mean? It's not as complex as it sounds, and it's a lot more common than you think.
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Reading his writing can be kind of like taking a psychedelic — a literary onomatopoeia.
A HOMEGROWN GARDEN OF MIND-ALTERING SUBSTANCESDAVID HERZBERGJULY 23, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHe seemed as much taken aback as if he had found a tribe of Cherokees studying onomatopoeia in English verse.
MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, VOLUME VI, NO. 3. FEBRUARY 1896VARIOUSAll words which were spontaneously acquired seemed to be instances of onomatopoeia.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, NO. 358, NOVEMBER 11, 1882VARIOUSOnomatopoeia, formations of words resembling in sound that of the things denoted by them.
THE NUTTALL ENCYCLOPAEDIAEDITED BY REV. JAMES WOODMao, the term for a "cat," is obviously an example of onomatopoeia.
CHINA AND THE CHINESEHERBERT ALLEN GILESThis correspondence of sound and sense is called onomatopoeia.
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WORDS RELATED TO 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.