And the Tintin series with the ace investigator Tintin and his dog Snoopy getting into hilarious run-ins with the bumbling identical twin cops abundantly spouting whoops, bangs, slops, splashes remain my favourite. Archie comics from my childhood are etched in my memory. Along with the graphic pictures, the action sounds 'boom' and 'thud' and 'miaow' and 'splash' send their imagination soaring to a world of their own. No wonder that they are so imaginatively and freely used in rhymes and by characters in the kiddies' comic books. She never calls a train without prefixing it with its sound. My little niece responds to chhuk-chhuk train with squeals of delight. Children are particularly drawn by the sonorous quality of such words. This literary device comes in handy while communicating with children. A story becomes more lively and interesting by the use of onomatopoeia. They are also used for rhetorical effect. Such imitative and naturally suggestive words add drama and poetry to a verse. Or, hiccup, zoom, bang, beep, moo, croak. Most of us can identify the phonetics in cuckoo, miaow, hiss, buzz, honk, or boom, splash. Onomatopoeia refers to the property of such words.
So, an onomatopoetic word is one that is made from the phonetic resemblance or suggestion of the source of the sound that it describes. The word originates from Greek onoma (name) and poiein (to make). That's a gust of wind accompanying the rain.įorming words by letters that resemble the sound of the things denoted by them is called onomatopoeia.
Pitter-patter, pitter-patter, pitter-patter, pitter-patter…. We go a little further, and the sentence continues to be effortless to comprehend: The first line describes a drizzle and the second a torrent of rain. Because the words are self-explanatory: pitter-patter is the sound of raindrops. What do the two lines denote and what is the difference between the two lines? Very easy to decipher.
Pitter-patter, pitter-patter, pitter-patter, pitter-patter.
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