Onomatopoeias

Our feet squished in the mud.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• none

Alex had a hard time hearing the teacher over his grumbling stomach.
*What is the onomatopoeia?

• grumbling

• teacher

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that imitates the sound it describes

• a word that means the opposite

• a word that describes a noun

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.

Kristen's brother is the coolest because he can burp the alphabet.

• brother

• alphabet

• Kristen

• burp

I love the swish of the basketball net.

• basketball

• swish

• onomatopoeia

• net

Find the onomatopoeic word.

• Crunch

• munch

• lunch

• hunch

Choose the correct onomatopoeia for a bird.

• bleet

• sweet

• feet

• tweet

Creak would be best used for the sound made by:

• the rain falling

• a door opening

• a boy yawning

Thud would be best used for the sound made by:

• a feather floating to the ground

• a man walking across the floor

• an apple core falling into a wastebasket

Which onomatopoeia would be best used for this action?

• kapow

• screech

• gulp

• thud