Saturday, October 22, 2011

What is Onomatopoeia?

  Onomatopoeia is the imitation of natural sounds in a word form like in the following poem.
Onomatopoeia
by Eve Merriam

The rusty spigot
sputters,
utters
a splutter,
spatters a smattering of drops,
gashes wider;
slash
splatters
scatters
spurts
finally stops sputtering
and plash!
gushes rushes splashes
clear water dashes.
Onomatopoeia click on speaker Students will view comic strips to identify examples of onomatopoeia. We have example of a jingle like the snap, crackle, pop jingle for Rice Krispies or the plop, plop, fizz, fizz for Alka Seltzer.
Front Cover Listen to Night Noises by Mem Fox and write down when you hear an onomatopoeia. Literature to support the Six Traits of Writing:Word Choice

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