Onomatopoeia
An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the sound it means: words that imitate particular sounds.
Examples:
- buzz -- the sound bees make
- arf, woof, bark -- sounds that dogs make
- cuckoo -- the bird's name is its call
- zip, zipper -- the sound it makes
- meow -- the sound that cats makes
- tick tick -- the sound that a clock makes
- boom--the sound that a bomb makes
- crash--the sound that breaking glass makes
- moo--the sound a cow makes
Onomatopoeia Media
A sign in a shop window in Italy proclaims these silent clocks make "No Tic Tac", in imitation of the sound of a clock.
According to Musurgia Universalis (1650), the hen makes "to to too", while chicks make "glo glo glo".
A bang flag gun, a novelty item
A sound effect of breaking a door
