Thursday, October 11, 2012

Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia: A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.

"To the  that tintinnabulation so musically wells."
(Edgar Alla Poe, The Bells)

This is an example of onomatopoeia because the word "tintinnabulation" represents the sound of the bells. The dingling of the bells.  




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