Words similar to onomatopoeia

Example sentences for: onomatopoeia

How can you use “onomatopoeia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In parallel with the roots of onomatopoeia (onoma `name' + poiein `to make or do') I have christened the effect onomatoplazia: onoma again + pladzein `to mislead or deceive.
This was the word that first caught my eye as the obverse of onomatopoeia.
In fact, the amount of back-formed onomatopoeia devoted to sounds of human manufacture is astounding.
The vocabulary is jocular in its easy mixture of the casual (in slang or coinages or abbreviations), the learned (in avatar, baroque, catatonic, synchronous ), the visual (in hieroglyphics or emoticons), and even the aural (in the fondness for explosives, like bang , common spoken name for !) or onomatopoeia ( bletch, glitch, gonk ).
Onomatopoeia adds zest to language, from aagh! to zzz ..., but somewhere between print and enunciation, the exact equivalence between sound and sense can get lost.