The floor with a clang, the firework went off withĪ bang, a flight of bats whooshed past my head, and the robot, the little baby robotīeeped at me, insistently.

Pudding cup went splat, the boxing bell fell to Where you make a word that sounds like what You repeat the same vowel, like abolished all anguish. The same consonant a bunch of times in a row, so swimming, swiftly,

To harness these three different language styles. Because here at Khan Academy, we want you to have the power to harness language, and specifically, today, I'm, I'm terrified of spelling this word, but I managed to do it,Īpparently, and now you know what it means, and that should take away some of its scariness and Looking word, right? Like, no one word should have It as a noun or a verb, you're using onomatopoeia. Literally, so if you, if you are trying to summon up theĪctual sound of a thing and transcribe it and use What have we got, Rosie? - Okay, we've got splat. But that's not the onlyĮxample of onomatopoeia. But that word is derivedįrom the buzz sound. Like, what is buzzed? Well, it's the sound that a bee makes. That you would conceive of as a sound effect, like a word that comes from a sound effect. So really, this is, this word just means sounds like what it does. It basically means, like, onom, onomat, means a Of all is onomatopoeia, which comes from Greek, and See, all of these words in the sentence in the When a series of words all start with the same vowel. That with assonance, which is what, Rosie? - Assonance is So you can see thatĪll these pink words here, swam, swiftly, surely, straightĪhead, all begin with 'S.' And so this is why weĬall this alliteration because 'S' is a consonant and all of these things share a Swam swiftly, surely, and straight ahead. Is when a series of words all start with the same consonant. Rosie, what is alliteration? - Alliteration And these are all words that are related to the way language sounds. Because what we're talking about today is alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia. Yes! This is one of my leastįavorite words to spell but one of my favorite The word ono-mato-poeia? - You can do it. Hello grammarians, hello Rosie! - Hi David! - So, You'veĬaught me mid-scribble in the greatest challenge of my career.

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