Cuckoo – this word so closely imitates the sound of a particular bird that people decided to use it to name the bird itself
To name things – some things are named for the sounds they make. For example, a zipper.
To create more expressive poems and creative writing – writers use onomatopoeic words to create different feelings and moods in their writing, or to more accurately describe a scene. You’ll often find these expressive words used in advertising and in comic books.
You can use onomatopoeic words whenever you’re trying to describe a sound. Use it in your writing to describe a scene, setting, or event more clearly, and use it in your everyday speech to talk about sounds you’ve heard – you can have a lot of fun making up your own words to describe these sounds too
We bet you’ve come across some onomatopoeic words that you love – either in English or your own native language – can you share some more examples with us? Have you learned them in your English lessons or on your own? Onomatopoeia might sound like a mouthful (it’s pronounced uh-mat-uh–pee–uh) but we use them everyday, sometimes without even knowing it. 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. It would be fun to compare them with the equivalent words in your language, too!
English Onomatopoeia: Sounds Made by Objects
Sounds that objects make also make up a huge list of onomatopoeia. This could be sounds from collisions, explosions, liquids, electricity, or vehicles among others. Let’s check them out now.
