Onomatopoeia is defined as the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. Following is a beginner's guide to onomatopoeic sound effects search words. sound like informal She sounded like she’d been crying. The following onomatopoeia words are sounds you may hear as you go about your day, ranging from the sound of your alarm clock blaring to a stack of books clattering to the floor. What they didn't know was that their record company had a plan. sound as if/as though You sound as if you’ve got a cold. wind (to follow a course that is not straight)/wind (a gust of air). Let's start with the basics. Sounds Things Make. Her voice sounded very young. The evidence for sound symbolism consists of things like the fact that there are so many words in English that refer to light or shiny things that begin with the letters "gl": gleam, glisten, glow, and glitter are just a few of these. Onomatopoeia might sound like a mouthful (it’s pronounced uh-mat-uh–pee–uh) but we use them everyday, sometimes without even knowing it. Inspired by the historical escape of the von Trapp family from Nazi encroachment at the dawn of World War II, Ernest Lehman (from a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse) endeavored to give meaning to that Austrian family's life story. The reasoning goes that "gl" must on some level mean "shiny." This word set can be confusing, even for word geeks. Onomatopoeia are words that mimic the sounds or noises that they refer to. He would like to scream, and do something (And touched the sound of silence), but still not there yet. The Sound of Music was originally considered as a movie vehicle for Audrey Hepburn. The first recording was an acoustic version on Simon & Garfunkel's first album, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, which was billed as "exciting new sounds in the folk tradition," and sold about 2000 copies.When the album tanked, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel split up. A homograph is a word that has the same spelling as another word but has a different sound and a different meaning:. Comments: 3. bass (low, deep sound)/bass (a type of fish). Sound words, also known as onomatopoeia, can make a poem or piece of writing appeal to the sense of hearing.They include words like bam, whoosh or slap.Take a look at five categories of onomatopoeic examples, grouped by letter combinations that are commonly used to represent certain sounds. 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). sound like You sound just like my mother (= the things you say, opinions you express etc are just like the things my mother says). 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