1. Onomatopoeia
Definition: Onomatopoeia are words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make.

2. Zip goes the jacket.
“Zip” is an onomatopoeia word because it sounds like a jacket being zipped up.
When you zip a zipper, “zip” is the sound it makes.

3. Can you find it?
The burning wood crackled and hissed; now and again an owl hooted somewhere in the darkness.
The car creaked forward once the old engine began to wheeze reluctantly.

4. The burning wood crackled and hissed; now and again an owl hooted somewhere in the darkness.
The car creaked forward once the old engine began to wheeze reluctantly.

5. Mechanical Onomatopoeia
Buzz
Beep
Whirr
Click
Clack
Clunk
Clatter
Clink

6. Fast Motion Onomatopoeia
Boing
Varoom
Vroom
Whoosh
Swish
Swoosh
Zap
Zing
Zip
Zoom

7. Musical Onomatopoeia Twang Oompah Plunk Ting Ding Ring Ping Clang Bong
Jingle
Jangle
Honk
Toot
Rap
Tap
Boom
Rattle
Plunk
Hum
Clap
Snap

8. Food and Eating Onomatopoeia
Food may crackle or sizzle and oil may splatter.
When we pour something to drink, it may go splash, kerplunk, or gush, but hopefully it won’t drip.
When we open a soft drink, it will probably fizz.
When it’s time to eat, we’re likely to nibble, munch, gobble, and crunch.

9. Food and Eating Onomatopoeia
Food may crackle or sizzle and oil may splatter.
When we pour something to drink, it may go splash, kerplunk, or gush, but hopefully it won’t drip.
When we open a soft drink, it will probably fizz.
When it’s time to eat, we’re likely to nibble, munch, gobble, and crunch.

10. Action Onomatopoeia
Pow
Bif
Bam
Whomp
Thump
Smash
Zowie
Bang
Wham

11. Animal Onomatopoeia meow (cat) moo (cow) neigh/whinny (horse)
bark/woof/bow-wow (dog)
oink (pig)
roar (lion)
tweet (bird)
cluck (hen)
peep (chick)
cock-a-doodle-doo (rooster)

12. Match the following sentences to the onomatopoeia that describes them.
A plate being dropped on the floor.
A balloon being burst.
A gun being shot.
Someone eating Rice crisps.
A light being switched on.
A fierce dog.
A small bell being rung.
TINKLE
BANG
SMASH
GROWL
POP
CRUNCH
CLICK

13. Match the following sentences to the onomatopoeia that describes them.
A plate being dropped on the floor.
A balloon being burst.
A gun being shot.
Someone eating Rice crisps.
A light being switched on.
A fierce dog.
A small bell being rung.
SMASH
POP
BANG
CRUNCH
CLICK
GROWL
TINKLE

14. How do we use Onomatopoeia in Poetry?

15. The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe
Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

16. Hear the mellow wedding bells Golden bells
Hear the mellow wedding bells Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells--

17. Write down each word in the following poem that could be considered “onomatopoeia.”

18. Marching Band boom! boom! bang the drum ta-diddy-ta! here they come
pah! pah!
trombone grand
bright silver sound
in marching band
ting! ting!
triangle ring
sharp and high
sound in sky
wrreee! wrree!
whistle blow
Majorette
leads the row
wah! wah!
bagpipes moan
wheel around
and head for home

19. Marching Band boom! boom! bang the drum ta-diddy-ta! here they come
pah! pah!
trombone grand
bright silver sound
in marching band
ting! ting!
triangle ring
sharp and high
sound in sky
wrreee! wrree!
whistle blow
Majorette
leads the row
wah! wah!
bagpipes moan
wheel around
and head for home

20. Cafeteria
Slurp!!! Went the straws. Whisper Is what half the kids in the room are doing. Crunch! Crunch! go the candy bars.
Boom! Went the food trays. Clap! Clap! Goes the teacher. Rip! Went the plastic bag. Munch! Munch! Go the students.

21. Cafeteria
Slurp!!! Went the straws. Whisper Is what half the kids in the room are doing. Crunch! Crunch! go the candy bars.
Boom! Went the food trays. Clap! Clap! Goes the teacher. Rip! Went the plastic bag. Munch! Munch! Go the students.

22. Your Turn! Must have three stanzas Each stanza must have four lines
Each stanza must contain at least one use of onomatopoeia
You may choose one of the following topics or create your own:
A day at the amusement park
A day at the zoo
The gymnasium
Watching a parade
Caught in a rain storm
The traffic downtown

23. Your Turn! Must have three stanzas Each stanza must have four lines
Each stanza must contain at least one use of onomatopoeia
You may choose one of the following topics or create your own:
A day at the amusement park
A day at the zoo
The gymnasium
Watching a parade
Caught in a rain storm
The traffic downtown
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