Can someone give me an example of an onomatopoeia?

In rhetoric, linguistics and poetry, onomatopoeia is a figure of speech that employs a word, or occasionally, a grouping of words, that imitates, echoes, or suggests the object it is describing, such as "bang" or "click", or animal noises such as "moo", "quack" or "meow".

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Examples

# Automobile - "honk" for the horn, "vroom" for the engine, "screech" for the tires, "eroonga" for the gears
# Train - "clickety-clack" crossing a junction, "choo-choo" for the whistle.
# Cash register - "ka-ching

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* Chicken - "cluck", "cackle", "bawk", "buck"
* Crow - "caw"
* Dove - "coo"
* Duck - "quack"
* Owl - "hoo" or "hoot"
* Rooster - "cock-a-doodle-doo", "tiktilaok" (PH)
* Turkey - "gobble"

# Insects - "buzz"

* Bee - "buzz"

# Mammals

* Cat - "meow" (US)/"miow" (UK)/"miauw"(NL), "mereow" (US)/"miaow" (UK), "purr", "niaou" (Greek)
o Lion - "roar", "rawr"
* Cow - "moo"
* Dog - "woof", "ruff", "arf", "grrr" (see bark), "whimper"
* Dolphin - "click"
* Donkey - "hee-haw"
* Frog - "ribbit", "croak" (Note: many species of frog make different calls.)
* Horse - "neigh", "whinny", "snort"
* Human - "prattle", "blab", "blah blah", "murmur", "brouhaha", "bar bar", "yadda yadda", "ra ra ra", "squee"
* Mouse/Rat - "squeak"
* Pig - "oink", "wee-wee-wee"
* Sheep - "baa"
* Wolf - "howl", "aroo"

# Reptiles

* Snake - "hiss", "sss"

This is a list of common English onomatopoeic words compiled from the World Wide Web.

* ba-boom
* bang
* bam
* bark
* bawl
* beep
* belch
* bing
* blab
* blare
* bling (diamond shining, may also be a representation of being wealthy)
* blurt
* boing
* bong
* bonk
* boom
* bow-wow
* bump
* burble
* burp
* buzz
* cheep (parrot)
* chop
* clang
* clank
* clap
* clatter
* click
* cock-a-doodle-doo
* crack
* crackle
* crash
* crash-boom (lightning strike)
* cuckoo
* ding
* ding-dong
* dong
* drip
* fwat
* gasp
* goosh
* grumble
* grunt
* gurgle
* hee-haw (donkey)
* hiccup
* hiss
* honk
* huff
* hum
* hurl
* ka-blam
* ka-boom
* ka-ching
* klap (Spanish for gunshot)
* meow
* moo
* murmur
* oink
* ping-pong
* plop
* poof
* pop, popped, popping
* puff
* quack
* rat-tat-tat-tat (beginning of machine gun fire)
* ring
* roar
* roared
* rustle
* scratch
* screech
* sigh
* sizzle
* sniff
* spit
* splash
* splat
* splut
* squawk
* squeak
* squeal
* squelch
* squish
* swoosh
* tat-tat-tat-tat (machine gun, not the beginning of firing)
* tee tee (baby chick)
* thud
* thump
* thwap
* tick
* tick-tock
* ting
* tink
* tock
* tweet tweet
* vroom
* wham
* woosh
* yip yip (dog screaming)
* zang
* zap
* zip
* zoom
* zzzzz

Onomatopoeia in advertising

Advertising uses onomatopeoia as a mnemonic so consumers will remember their products:

* Rice Krispies - "Snap, crackle, pop" when you pour on milk.
* Alka-Seltzer - makes a "plop, plop, fizz, fizz" noise when dunked in water.
* Cocoa Puffs - a freaky bird is "cuckoo" for them.
* Road safety: "clunk click, every trip" (click the seatbelt on after clunking the car door closed; UK campaign)
* Road safety - "click clack, front and back"

Everyday Sounds

Some other very common English-language examples include:

* Bam
* Bang
* Beep
* Boing
* Boom
* Burp
* Boosh
* Clap
* Crackle
* Ding-dong

* Hiccup
* Ka-boom
* Ping pong
* Plop
* Poof
* Pow
* Thud
* Tick-tock
* Squish
* Swoosh
* Zap

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia

Swish. Beep. Bam. Pow. Cluck.

that's right - I'm sure onomatopoeias are words that can be spelled the same forward and backward.

noon sis bib bob dud boob toot

..And then she heard the tic tac of the clock

screeeeeeeechhhh.... BANG! ttsssssss...

Car crash

Onomatopoeia is a wplunk imitates the sound it represents.
also imitative harmony

Example:
splash, wow, gush, kerplunk

Such devices bring out the full flavor of words. Comparison and association are sometimes strengthened by syllables which imitate or reproduce the sounds they describe. When this occurs, it is called onomatopoeia (a Greek word meaning name-making "), for the sounds literally make the meaning in such words as "buzz," "crash," "whirr," "clang" "hiss," "purr," "squeak," "mumble," "hush," "boom." Poe lets us hear the different kinds of sounds made by different types of bells in his famous poem "The Bells." His choice of the right word gives us the right sound when he speaks of "tinkling" sleigh bells; "clanging" fire bells; mellow "chiming" wedding bells; "tolling," "moaning," and "groaning" funeral bells.

Tennyson makes us feel the heaviness of a drowsy summer day by using a series of "in" sounds in the wonderfully weighted lines:

The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.

buzz, bang, pop, click, pow

bob, nun, hannah, are all onomatopoeias.

boom, crash, thump, whizz, smack

pop crack buzzzzz beeeeep

Some examples of an Onomatopoeia
Bang the sound of fireworks--but only on the Fourth of July
Bark the sound vocalized by a medium-sized dog
Bing the sound of the oven timer when the cookies are done
Blippity-Blop-Blop-Ver-Slotch the sound of a stomach illness
Boing the sound of a roomful of springs
Bong the sound of church bells on a Sunday morn
Boom the sound of an imploding TV vacuum tube
Braap the sound of oral flatulence
Burble the sound of a lidded pot brimming with boiling water
Buzz the sound of ten thousand bees
Clang the sound of a hammer hitting a sheet of metal
Click the warning sound of small firearms
Crackle the sound of wet wood on a campfire
Crash the imminent sound of playing baseball in the house
Ding the first sound of the average householdâ€™s doorbell
Dong the second sound of the average householdâ€™s doorbell
Fizz the sound of a bottle of well-shaken Coke
Goosh the sound of Hoover Dam busting open
Gurgle the last sound water makes before going down the drain
Huff the sound Chubby makes when we punch him in the stomach
Hiss the sound of nearby snakes or low tires (neither of which is good)
Hum the sound of the radiator in the library
Ka-blam the sound of an exploding grenade
Kerplunk the sound of a wrench being dropped into a water-filled basin
Lub-dub the sound that the heart makes according to anatomy textbooks
Meow the sound of a real cat
Moo the sound of a stereotypical cow
Murmur the sound heard around the workplace on â€œthe day afterâ€
Ping the sound of a crescent wrench hitting a cement floor
Purr the sound of a very happy cat or well-groomed automobile
Ring the sound of kids on bicycles riding towards the ice cream truck
Szhoom the sound of a light saber cutting through the air
Splash the sound of the bow breaking through the waves
Squeak the incessant sound pouring out from my roommateâ€™s chair
Thud the sound of a lead brick smashing the Earth
Thwap the sound of skin on skin
Tick the sound of the Grandfather clock when the pendulum is on the left
Tock the sound of the Grandfather clock when the pendulum is on the right
Whirr the sound of an electric can opener that has seen better days
Whiz the sound of a 60-mph baseball three inches from your head
Woosh the sound that every flying superhero makes on takeoff
Wop the sound of a wet rag thrown onto a greasy counter top
Yip the sound of a small annoying dog

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