Onomatopoeia

Connoisseurs often state how “wine improves with age”. Although the process of aging may alter the flavor compounds, texture, or color of the beverage, one cannot predict improvement nor deterioration. Centuries have passed since Edgar Allan Poe describes the death of a gullible fool, yet the taste of a murderer’s Amontillado wine remains bittersweet. Although the work is fictional, “The Cask of Amontillado” provides a realistic, emotional, and dismal libretto, depicted as a tale of revenge and…

“praaaaaay” and “wore on terrRr” (45). Presumably, the reader is expected to piece together the conversation as if he was only able to catch a few words which is wildly inventive and effective. Fountain even misspells the words for the purpose of onomatopoeia forcing the reader to hear the accent and slang vocabulary of an everyday conversation in Arlington, Texas. Not only is Fountain a master at creating sounds with words, but also images. For example, while the squad is walking to the half…

“I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don 't respect.” - Sandra Cisneros (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sandra_cisneros.html) Sandra Cisneros, famous author of works such as The House on Mango Street (1989), was born in Chicago in 1954, to a Mexican father and Chicana (Mexican-American) mother (Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature, “Sandra Cisneros”).…

Everyone loves the warm weather of the summer. The sun beating down, heating up the once icy ground after a winter with scarcely any reprieve from it’s brutal conditions. Many even travel throughout the colder months to places that experience summer virtually all year long. But at what point does something so wonderful become dangerous? With the temperature at such a prime point for an extended period of time, catastrophic events will begin to occur. The poles will begin melting, sea levels…

us that he was waiting a long time which gave him time to overthink things and wonder why he was there and why he was being took home unexpectedly. Another effective line of the poem is ‘Counting bells knelling classes to a close’, knelling is onomatopoeia as it is the sound of funeral bells and also has connotations of death, so as Heaney looked back he remembers bells knelling…

Then, just when Whitman thought his luck had turned and Leaves of Grass started selling well, his publisher went bankrupt and someone stole the printing plates of the third edition. That printer is believed to have pirated 100,000 copies of the book (“Walt Whitman”, 1998). Indeed, Whitman’s poetry did not gain much fame until after his death, but towards the end of his life he gained recognition in Europe (“Walt Whitman”, 2002). Nevertheless, “in the years following Whitman’s death, Leaves of…

One of my exceptionally most loved spots to go in my extra time is the shoreline. A shoreline is a national geographic nature made landform that is almost a waterway. It normally comprises of free particles, which are as often as possible made out of sand, rock, shingle, stones, or cobblestones. The particles living on a shoreline are every so often natural to the causes, for example, mollusk shells or coralline green growth. Shorelines normally show up around territories along the drift where…

O’Neal’s father was also the person who got Shaq to dunk. After missing a finger roll, Shaq’s father practically embarrassed him into dunking the basketball. After that talk, Shaq went back into the game and CRUNCH, threw down a monster slam! :) (Onomatopoeia). His father made sure Shaq played with toughness, and emotion. I do not think that Shaquille O’Neal would have become the great player he became without his father, and his “tough-love” (O’Neal…

the first line of “Auto Wreck,” “it 's quick soft silver bell beating, beating.” (1) This repetition of the word beating was inserted to create an image of the ambulance racing to the scene of the accident. This phrase is also considered to be onomatopoeia, because of the sound which the ambulance makes, beating and whooping, in an attempt to scare the other drivers off the road. The repetition also produces a lasting effect, since it is in the primary line the reader is left thinking about it…

Living in a city is something most people struggle with at some point in their lives, though must struggles aren 't beautifully crafted into poems. "Love Lies Sleeping" is a poem written by Elizabeth Bishop was written in 1936 and later published in 1938, while living in New York. The poem about Bishop looking out of the city from her window, taking in all of the little details. It has an odd form, consisting of 15 stanzas, each with two long lines followed by two shorter ones that are…