ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

GOTHIC LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The use of words whose sounds suggest the sounds made by objects or activities.
A
onomatopoeia
B
consonance
C
end rhyme
D
internal rhyme
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Onomatopoeia is the use or creation of a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Such a word itself is also called an onomatopoeia. Common onomatopoeias include animal noises such as oink, meow (or miaow), roar, and chirp.

Detailed explanation-2: -Onomatopoeia are words that mimic the sounds or noises that they refer to. It could be the sound of animals (moo, meow, or woof), human sounds (achoo, haha, grr) or sounds that objects make (bam, pop, tick-tock). Here in this article, we’ll talk about some of the most common English onomatopoeia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Onomatopoeia is a literary device in which a word is used to represent a sound. For example, the words ‘pop’, ‘crack’ and ‘splat’ are all onomatopoeic. Onomatopoeia can also be used to represent the sounds that animals or people make.

Detailed explanation-4: -Onomatopoeia definition: a word that sounds like the noise it describes. Some onomatopoeia examples include the words boing, gargle, clap, zap, and pitter-patter.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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