Gretchen Primack
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We should live in harmony with Earth not conquer it…or the animals. The other members of the National Football League say I'm in the minority… but they are. A majority of the world is vegetarian.
—Former Steelers football Player Glenn Scolnick onomatopoeia
A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds. Examples of onomatopoeic words are buzz, hiss, zing, clippety-clop, and tick-tock. Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" not only uses onomatopoeia, but calls our attention to it:
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