He points to a 1929 experiment by Edward Sapir in which Sapir's subjects were asked to match nonsense words with small and large versions of the same object.The common feature of sound occurring in a group of symbolic words 1 Several 2 of the words you are describing feature a phon(a)estheme 3 which contributes to your sense that their meaning is somehow reflected in their sound. I believe you could say that these words are phon(a)esthemic. Thanks in advance for the help, let me know if I can clarify this at all! "The word Twinkle is a - because it sounds sparkly and light when spoken which is appropriate to its meaning, but not directly connected" Since I have tagged this as a single word request here is a sample sentance: I am convinced that at some point I knew the answer to this question but I have since forgotten it. These words sound like the things they mean when spoken without explicitly meaning their sound.Ĭontrast this to onomatopoeias whos meaning is only their sound: Splash (this might just be an onomatopoeia).
This is hard for me to explain (also hard to google) so I am going to give some examples: To my understanding this would differ from an onomatopoeia in that onomatopoeia's deal with the denotation of a word. What I am looking for is a word that describes words that are read with a sound representative of their connotation. I might write about some funny situations.Hi this is something I've been looking for an answer to for a while now, Poetry is fun! It's a playground for the imagination. Maybe a zoo keeper without a zoo or a lion that quacks like a duck or a shrimp with a limp. When I realised you could make up words when writing poems, it didn't take long to realise that I could make up characters and situations. You could even make up words like bloomlurgy, tangleflority, keyayaya, laykal wangdoolahlah! It's just a matter of playing with words, swapping everyday words for words you find funny or words you like the sound of. There are nonsense poems waiting to be created from everyday descriptions of a journey on a bus or a trip to the shops, a visit to the bathroom or a trip to the zoo. Then run the hippopotamus over each hippo and my peanut butter I'm going to swap toothbrush with hippopotamus and run with skedaddle and mouth with tuna fish and tongue with peanut butter. Then just swap some of the words with random words. Then run the toothbrush over each tooth and my tongue One way to create great nonsense poems is to first write some sentences about doing something very ordinary like brushing your teeth. They don't have to have a deep meaning in fact poems don't have to have any meaning at all they can be utter nonsense! Listening to the sounds around us can inspire poems. Onomatopoeia (sound words) are fun to play with because with sounds you get rhythms. Plop goes the elephant dung and bad is the smell. Roar goes the lion and drip goes the tap.ĭrop goes the penny as it splashes into the well. Words like moo, quack, roar, drip, drop, splash! By stringing sound words together it is possible to create a poem. It's a long word, but simply means words that are also sounds. One of my favourite poetic devices is onomatopoeia.
At its heart, poetry is about having fun with words and the sounds that they make.
It took me a long time to realise that it can be fun and that anyone can do it. When I was growing up, I thought poetry was very serious.
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