CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The term onomatopoeia in Greek means “creating or making names, ” which means imitating sound using written text. For example, when you read the word splash, you can associate it with the sound of something that is falling into the water.

Detailed explanation-2: -: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss)

Detailed explanation-3: -Most onomatopoeias are words that represent sounds, such as animal calls (cows moo, birds tweet) and other noises (woosh, boom, and thump). But onomatopoeias can describe actions as well, such as poof, splash, and sizzle.

Detailed explanation-4: -Onomatopoeia helps heighten language beyond the literal words on the page. Onomatopoeia’s sensory effect is used to create particularly vivid imagery-it is as if you are in the text itself, hearing what the speaker of the poem is hearing. It is also used in: Children’s literature.

Detailed explanation-5: -These words seem to mimic what they represent out there in the world-the sounds of explosions, of laughter, of hiccups, and of roosters. The literary term for these kinds of words is “onomatopoeia, ” from the Greek words “onoma, ” meaning name, and “poiein” meaning to make.