By Nick and Ryan

• Onomatopoeia- words that sound like what they mean

• Is from the Greek, onoma, meaning “name” and poiein meaning “to make”.

• A good writer can create onomatopoeia with his/her own word choice.

• Bang, boom, and sizzle are simple onomatopoeias.

• James Joyce gives us the sound of Cricket bats: pick pack pock and puck

• Carl Sandburg describes the voice of the last cricket: “It is so thin a splinter of singing.”

• Walter de la Mare poem “Silver” is imitating the quiet of a moonlit night

• Slowly, silently, now the moon walks the night in her silver shoon; this way, and that, she peers and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees

• Drip drop

• Gong

• Click clack

• Ding dong

• Crack

• Splash

• Smack

• Crunch

• Sniff