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Onomatopoeia

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  • 03-06-2014 11:40am
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    juniorcert101
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭


    is there Onomatopoeia is mid term break by seamus Heaney? If so, where? And is there enough to use it as a poem if sound effects came up?


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    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    Not really, something onomatopoeia-like in the second line (knelling classes to a close) but other than that I wouldn't say so


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    peterod1998
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭peterod1998


    The baby "cooed"
    And candles "soothed"

    That's all I can see but I didn't study that poem so there may be more


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    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Knelling is a verb for a bell ringing. It doesn't describe the sound of the bell. I wouldn't think it would be onomatopoeic.

    Cooed would be.

    Soothed wouldn't. Again wouldn't describe the sound of a candle.

    'Whispered' might be as it describes the sound of people talking quietly in the background.

    The poem is not a great example of the use of onompatopeia.


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    Eims14
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭Eims14


    joeguevara wrote: »
    'Whispered' might be as it describes the sound of people talking quietly in the background.
    .

    I thought whispered was part of a longer chunk which uses sibilance.to create a whisper sound?Does that make sense.or...


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    peterod1998
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭peterod1998


    Eims14 wrote: »
    I thought whispered was part of a longer chunk which uses sibilance.to create a whisper sound?Does that make sense.or...

    That does make sense but it can be onomatopoeia as well. It doesn't have to be one or the other


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