Билет №23.

Onomatopoeia and rhythm.

Onomatopoeia is a combination of speech-sounds, which aims at imitating sounds produced in na­ture (wind, sea, thunder, etc), by things (machines or tools, etc), by people (singing, laughter, patter of feet, etc) and by animals. Combinations of speech sounds of this type will inevitably be associ­ated with whatever produces the natural sound. Therefore the relation between onomatopoeia and the phenomenon it is supposed to represent is one of metonymy. There are two varieties of ono­matopoeia: direct and indirect. Direct onomatopoeia is contained in words that imitate natural sounds: for example, Ding – dong, buzz, cuckoo, tintinnabulation, mew, Ping-Pong, roar, and the like. These words have different degrees of imitative quality. Some of them immediately bring to mind whatever it is that produces the sound.

Rhythm 1) a flow, movement, procedure, etc. characterized by basically regular recurrence of ele­ments or features, as beat, or accent, in alternation with opposite or different elements or features (Webster's New World Dictionary) 2) a combination of the ideal metrical scheme and the variations of it, variations which are governed by the standard.