Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Onomatopoeia

Boat Ride

clump, clump, clump, clump
creak. creak
Thump
creak, creak
splash, splash
swoosh (creak), swoosh (creak), swoosh (creak), swoosh
Bang, bump
blurb, blurb, blurble
glug, glug, glug
scrape, sploosh, scrape, sploosh, scrape, sploosh
Hup, SPLASH
splish, splish, splish, splish...
clunk, thunk
flop
ahhhh


Want to know more about the word onomatopoeia? Check out Matthew MacNish's post for today over at the Quintessentially Questionable Query Experiment.

26 comments:

  1. What vivid poetry! Thanks for the linkage, Laurita.

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  2. Ooooh, a boat ride, with all sorts of good slurpy words.

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  3. That wasn't a relaxing boat ride at all! Whew, I'm glad we're back on dry land. A great example of that word I'm too lazy to type out. :)

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  4. Well done. That's exactly what a boat ride is.

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  5. HA, awesome! I should use this when I teach onomatopoeia to my students. :-)

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  6. I'm impressed you can spell the word itself! ;-)

    It's always struck me that it's a bit of a highfalutin word to describe words that imitate sounds!

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  7. It is a great word, so easy to demonstrate.

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  8. I had forgotten this word. It use to be one of my faves when I was a student. Thanks for re introducing me to an old friend. Great post and picture on your blog

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  9. Did anyone heave ho over the side? Good images of some boat rides I experienced!

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  10. I teach 8th grade English, and we recently covered onomatopoeia in a poetry unit. The kids really enjoyed playing around with this device.

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  11. Wheeeeee! Love it. Peace...

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