HIT: sources of onomatopoeia

[Kathy Ballard <kballard@HOMER.CNYRIC.ORG>]

Someone asked for a hit and I have been lax in getting it posted--sorry.
Here are the three responses I received that I still have in my possession.
 Thanks to each of you who responded.

*In regard to onomatopoeia examples, if you have a copy of Laurence
Perrine's Sound and Sense (5th ed.), on page 200-201 you will find all
sorts of good examples.  In case you don't have the books, I'll give you a
few -- flame, flicker, flimmer (moving light); glare, gleam, glint, glow,
glisten (unmoving light); inch, imp, thin, slim, little, pigmy, chick,
kitten (short "i" --smallness); moan, groan, woe, mourn, tool,doom, gloom,
moody (long "o" or "oo"--melancholy or sorrow); crack, peck, pick, hack
(final "ck" suggesting sudden cessation of movement).

*Do you have these brief Web examples?
        http://www-tep.ucsd.edu/students/Davis/onomatopoeia.html
        http://mbhs.bergtraum.k12.ny.us/cybereng/lit_terms/onomatopeoia.html
        http://www.maclab.uvic.ca/writersguide/Pages/LTOnomat.html

*Todd Rundgren wrote a song entitled "Onomatopoeia" a few years ago, and I
always used to play it in class when I taught poetry as an English teacher.
 It is GREAT.  The whole song is words like splash, fizz, bubble, hic, set
to the sounds themselves and to music.  I think it was on an album called
Skunk in Mink Hollow, or something like that.  I hope you can locate it;
it's wonderful!

*The following set of books may not be helpful for this time around unless
you can get access to them through another library, but I think they will
be useful for you to order, if this is an ongoing type of request:  Using
Picture Storybooks to Teach Literary Devices, Vol. 1 and 2, by Susan Hall,
published by Oryx.  The beauty of using picuture books is that they are
short and you can make your point quickly.  Also, I imagine that poetry for
young children is more likely to have quickly accessible examples of
onomatopoeia than poetry for older students and adults.

Thanks again,

Kathy Ballard, LMS
Homer High School
Homer, NY  13077
kballard@homer.cnyric.org

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