Onomatopoeia

connoted a negative experience, working down through the linguistic levels - discourse (rhythm and meter), lexis (onomatopoeia), and phonology (alliteration and sounds clusters). Readers interpretation: Using sound patterning within a text allows the reader to visualise what the writer is describing to them in finer detail, by incorporating the senses, for example the use of onomatopoeia allows the reader to make a link between a word, and something they may have heard or experienced in the…

it flow and be like a rap. The structure is traditional because it rhymes,and it is like a sonnet in that the rhyme schemes are the same but mine is two lines longer than a sonnet. My five literary devices are an onomatopoeia, assonance, rhymes, similes and some imagery. An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like a sound, and I used the word squall which mean a shriek or a cry and the word squall sounds like a squawk or a cry, so it is an…

1. In the novel, Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech, gaining unexpected friendship reveals itself as a major theme. In the beginning of the book, Jack states many times that he is not a fan of cats (1). After telling us the traumatic story of how a cat once attacked him while attempting to rescue it out of a tree, you can detect, from this tone, the hatred Jack felt toward the cat preceding the quarrel between them (46). Hence, we see his mind set on his attitude toward cats, until poetry makes an…

land of the evil Jabberwock. Lewis Carroll wrote the first stanza years before the rest of the poem appeared in Through the Looking Glass (Jabberwocky, n.d.). Carroll uses portmanteaus, words made up of other words, and shows the use of several onomatopoeias, which occur when the sound of a word becomes it meaning (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). Carroll invented blended words and called them portmanteaus. The term portmanteaus derived from the idea of cramming clothing into a portmanteau, a…

Every writer uses their own toolbox of skills to construct their writing in reflection of their lives. Antwone Fisher uses figurative language such as personification, metaphor, and onomatopoeia as tools in his book, Finding Fish, to create a solid picture in the reader’s mind of how he perceived his life. He creates a tone of wonderment to show the good times of his life in these examples. Fisher describes an image of his childhood as: “...the icy bare branches looked like they were holding…

dilemma comes to light in the short story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. The burden of war on soldiers is more than physical strain. Tim O’Brien displays the extra burdens of soldiers through the use of poetic elements such as repetition, onomatopoeia, symbols, metaphors, similes and irony. Ultimately, the use of metaphors in “The Things They Carried” adds importance to soldiers and the burdens that they carry through war. O’Brien writes about the things soldiers carry such as…

poem that was written by Edgar Allen Poe and was not published until after his death. The tone of this poem goes from happy and joyous to fear and death. Several elements are used throughout this poem such as assonances, personifications, and onomatopoeias. Assonances is the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible. In “The Bells,” there are several examples. In Stanza 1 Line 3, Poe refers to silver…

verbs, specific nouns, pronouns, 3+ adjectives & adverbs, personification, hyperbole, idiom, onomatopoeia, alliteration, simile, metaphor, sensory details (5 senses).…

This technique uses a musical device to create the imagery and sound of the object being imitated. For example, a cat "meows" or a clock "ticks" are examples of onomatopoeia in literature. Words that imitate their actions are also considered onomatopoeia, such as the word "popcorn." Refrain The refrain consists of at least one word or words that repeat regularly in a poem. It could be just one word that is repeated or as many as an entire phrase or line…

pavement, With my memoir written in blood. Anguish is a savior arriving too late, But on time at my funeral. Anguish is a goodbye, I never got. Sound and Literary Techniques 3 sound techniques: internal rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia 3 language techniques: metaphor, personification, imagery My free verse poem utilizes sound techniques like internal rhyme and alliteration.…