| From time to time, of course, name and music fuse, and you get a kind of etymological perfection that's somehow close to onomatopoeia. |
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| Some people just use onomatopoeia, while others insist on miming the playing of drums and crashing of cymbals. |
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| Yet the aural discipline plays a major part in poetic meaning, in ways that go far beyond mere onomatopoeia. |
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| Even in its expression it aims at excellence by means of word-play, onomatopoeia, and so forth. |
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| The sounds of living, onomatopoeia and words, were the purpose of that voice. |
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| He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus. |
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| Did you ever consider approaching your linguistics department with a master's thesis solely dedicated to onomatopoeia? |
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| What he admired in these poets was their inventive use of word and sound in every device of onomatopoeia, alliteration, pun and palindrome. |
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| Paradise Lost is also, of course, filled with mimetic sound effects, onomatopoeia and mimetic syntax, which only work if the poem is sounded. |
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| The book is largely wordless, relying instead on a symphony of onomatopoeia. |
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| In addition, sasŏl sijo frequently employed slang, vulgar language, and onomatopoeia. |
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| He basked when I pointed to a visual onomatopoeia that conjured up a subway's rumble. |
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| Ji Lee, creative director at Facebook, plays with type in his new book, creating works of visual onomatopoeia. |
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| Some think that it comes from onomatopoeia refering to the breath and to the rattle of couscous grains when rolled in the hand. |
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| Japanese is rich in onomatopoeia and mimesis, with established aural rules. |
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| Let's just say there's an element of onomatopoeia in the phrase. |
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| If you're sceptical about the role played by sound symbolism and straight-out onomatopoeia in word origins, Liberman marshals some impressive evidence in its favour. |
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| One remarkable piece appears to be a superhero story, but all the words, including the onomatopoeia, read together as a short memoir of the author's childhood. |
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| This seems like the sort of place that would take onomatopoeia too far. |
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| On the other hand, it noted, description in written language, including onomatopoeia and the naming of musical notes in a specific sequence, are insufficient to meet the requirements. |
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| The dancers stressed this beat, producing a sound by rubbing the soles of their shoes on the floor, which Jorrín called cha-cha-cha by onomatopoeia. |
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| Scat singing is a form of singing in which a song's lyrics are replaced by a series of onomatopoeia, which are words that mimic the sounds they make, or by nonsensical syllables. |
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| This is an example of onomatopoeia that differs from language to language. |
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| When giant elastic cords are stretched from one point to another and made to vibrate while a singer chimes out onomatopoeia, the entire space becomes musical. |
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| But the name is more than mere quotation: onomatopoeia and linguistic structure turn the word itself into its own repetition, reproduction and serial structure. |
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| They communicated through grunts and onomatopoeia. |
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| Black and white, frame cutting, speech balloons, onomatopoeia? all the elements are brought together in this series set midway between live movie and animation. |
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| The language of the stories abounds in figurative expressions and repetitions and employs metonymy, metaphor and onomatopoeia, rendering transcription very difficult. |
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| Sounds are remarkably difficult to describe without onomatopoeia. |
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| He didn't always explain what his words meant, but children can work them out because they often sound like a word they know, and he loved using onomatopoeia. |
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| The device Is onomatopoeia, also called echoic sounding words. |
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| Onomatopoeia is that vowelly word where the meaning sounds like what it is. |
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