ABC Rhetoric
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Onomatopoeia
The Technical Stuff:
Onomatopoeia
is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes.
Examples:
No one talks in these factories. Everyone is too busy. The only sounds are the snip, snip of scissors and the hum of sewing machines.
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