ONOMATOPOEIA  擬聲法

MIMESIS which consists in expressing one's meaning by imitating the sound of what one describes.

Imitation of sounds through made-up words.

Hypernym
  • RHETORICAL STYLE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which is mainly concerned with matters of style of presentation rather than distribution of expressions or semantic structure.
  • MIMESISIMITATIO consisting of imitation of sound, action, or behaviour.
    • IMITATIOREPETITIO consisting in overt and deliberate repetition-by-way-of-imitation of a model assumed to be known to the readership/audience.
      • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
        • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
Greek/Latin: Common, and used extensively.

Ar. Clouds 388

Ancient Chinese: Common. See particularly ZHUANG 2.

Rhetorical device locations: 3