Alliteration & Onomatopoeia

What is Onomatopoeia?

• When a word resembles the sound it is making.

• A comparison using like or as.

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of nearby words.

Which word adds an onomatopoeia to the sentence? Mum heard the leak when she walked into the kitchen. ______, ______, _______!

• Drip, drip, drip

• Flick, flick, flick

• Quack, quack, quack

• Donk, donk, donk

What word is the Onomatopoeia in this sentence?

The girl screamed: “Eek!” as she thought she saw a monster in her closet.

• monster

• Eek

• screamed

• closet

What word is the Onomatopoeia in this sentence?

Julia's brother yelled boo to scare her!

• "boo"

• scare

• yelled

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.

I love the swish of the basketball net.

• basketball

• swish

• onomatopoeia

• net

Which phrase in the sentence is not an onomatopoeia? Bees buzz, cows moo, cats meow and goats eat all day.

• bees buzz

• cows moo

• cats meow

• goats eat all day

In the sentence 'Karla's cash register opened with a calming ca-ching', which word is the onomatopoeia?

• cash

• calming

• ca-ching

• Karla's

Choose the correct onomatopoeia.
Water hitting the floor

• tweet
• splash
• oink
• bah

Choose the correct onomatopoeia for a bird.

• bark
• oink
• moo
• tweet

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.
Wow, Hailie's race car zoomed past the finish line.

• zoomed
• car
• wow
• finish