Onomatopoeia

An onomatopoeia is also known as what?

• An action word

• A descriptive word

• A sound word

• A statement

Mrs. Davis was sitting by her pond listening to the frogs croak.  

• croak

• Mrs. Davis

• frogs

• pond

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that imitates the sound it describes

• a word that means the opposite

• a word that describes a noun

The cars crashed into each other.

• crashed

• cars

• each

• other

Onomatopoeia is

• a word that imitates the sound that it represents

• a comparison where on thing is said to be another

• an exaggeration

• giving human qualities to animals or objects

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.

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

• brother

• alphabet

• Kristen

• burp

Find the onomatopoeic word.

• Crunch

• munch

• lunch

• hunch

Choose the correct onomatopoeia for a bird.

• bleet

• sweet

• feet

• tweet

What onomatopoeia goes best with this picture?

• Take-off!

• Pow!

• Blast!

• Fly

I love the swish of the basketball net.

• basketball

• swish

• onomatopoeia

• net