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onomatopoeia
noun as in echo
Strongest matches
Weak matches
noun as in figure of speech
Weak matches
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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Example Sentences
I may venture to say it is too expressive, too full of onomatopœia.
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Pauthier translates the verses somewhat differently; preserving the onomatopœia in three of the lines.
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His device was the obvious one which is called, by rhetoricians, onomatopœia.
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Find examples of alliteration, of onomatopœia, of all the figures of speech that you can find here.
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More names of animals, learned from adults; no onomatopœia .
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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