onomatopoeia
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From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
If the sound of the words actually imitates the sound of the thing indicated, the effect is called Onomatopoeia.
From A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington
This is one of the instances in which he is lured from the plain path by the Nixy Onomatopoeia.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
No poet since Milton has employed what is known as Onomatopoeia with so much effect.
From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton
Onomatopoeia, formations of words resembling in sound that of the things denoted by them.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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