After Joyce created this word, it is now listed as the longest palindrome in the English language. He combines other onomatopoetic words for knocking at a door, like “rap” and “tap” into one long word. In this excerpt from his famously dense novel Ulysses, Joyce creates a nonce word “tattarrattat” for the sound of knocking at a door (a “nonce” word is a word that is created only for a special case). Some authors love to create new words both William Shakespeare and James Joyce were well-known for doing so. I was just beginning to yawn with nerves thinking he was trying to make a fool of me when I knew his tattarrattat at the door. The musician to whom he is speaking picks up on the joke and uses it back at Peter. Therefore his usage of two of those notes is onomatopoetic, but he always uses it as a pun by following up with “Do you note me?” In this question, “note” takes on the double entendre of meaning “do you understand me?” as well as referring to the musical notes. Do you note me?” The “re” and “fa” refer to the Solfege scales, which includes the notes do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, and do. The character Peter says “I’ll re you, I’ll fa you. This exchange from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is an interesting example of onomatopoeia. ( Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare) Then will I lay the serving creature’s dagger on your pate. The dogs “bark” and say “bow-wow” while the chanticleer cries “cock-a-diddle-dow.” Shakespeare is thus using the onomatopoeias of animal noises here. The character of Ariel in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest uses several examples of onomatopoeia in one short passage. Examples of Onomatopoeia in Literature Example #1 For example, in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Coleridge uses the phrase “furrow followed free” to mimic the sound of the wake left behind a ship. Authors sometimes use combinations of words to create an onomatopoetic effect not necessarily using words that are onomatopoetic in and of themselves. Onomatopoeia is often used in literature to create aural effects that mimic the visual thing being described.
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