Onomatopoeia

In rhetoric, linguistics and poetry, onomatopoeia is a figure of speech that employs a word, or occasionally, a grouping of words, that imitates, echoes, or suggests the object it is describing, such as "bang", "click", "fizz", "hush" or "buzz", or animal noises such as "moo", "quack" or "meow".

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Rhetoric - Linguistics - Poetry - Figure of speech - Word

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Onomatopoetic words exist in every language, although they are different in each. For example:-

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In Latin, tuxtax is the equivalent of "bam" or "whack" and was meant to imitate the sound of blows landing.

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In Ancient Greek, koax was used as the sound of a frog croaking.

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In Japanese, dokidoki is used to indicate the beating of a heart.

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Sometimes onomatopoetic words have a very tenuous relationship with the sound they describe, such as bow-wow in English and wang-wang in Chinese for the sound a dog makes.

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Some animals are named after the sounds they make, especially birds such as the cuckoo and chickadee.

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Cuckoo - Chickadee

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