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  2. Portal:Comics - Wikipedia

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    Comics are a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically takes the form of a sequence of panels of images. . Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other informa

  3. Portal:Comics/Intro - Wikipedia

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    Comics are a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically takes the form of a sequence of panels of images. . Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other informa

  4. Comics - Wikipedia

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    Comics are a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically takes the form of a sequence of panels of images. . Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other informa

  5. Sound symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Unlike onomatopoeia, an ideophone refers to words that depict any sensory domain, such as vision or touch. Examples are Korean mallang-mallang 말랑말랑 'soft' and Japanese kira-kira キラキラ 'shiny'. Ideophones are heavily present in many African and East/Southeast Asian languages, such as Japanese, Thai, Cantonese and Xhosa.

  6. Japanese sound symbolism - Wikipedia

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    A Grammar of Sound-Symbolic Words in Japanese: Theoretical Approaches to Iconic and Lexical Properties of Japanese Mimetics (PDF) (PhD). Kobe University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-30. Akutsu, Satoru (1994). A Practical Guide to Mimetic Expressions Through Pictures. ALC Press, ISBN 4-87234-322-0. Hamano, Shoko (1998).

  7. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Onomatopoeia: word that imitates a real sound (e.g. tick-tock or boom). Paradiastole: A rhetorical device using euphemistic or mild language to avoid offence or harsh reality. Parallelism: the use of similar structures in two or more clauses. Paraprosdokian: A sentence or phrase with an unexpected twist or surprise at the end.

  8. Childlore - Wikipedia

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    When speaking this nursery rhyme to the child, the parents have the option to change the word around to over, under or through, expanding the child's vocabulary and improving their language skills. Likewise, children eventually begin to learn to communicate using various styles of language, such as alliteration and onomatopoeia .

  9. Ideophone - Wikipedia

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    An ideophone, also known as a mimetic word or expressive, is any word in a certain word class evoking ideas in sound imitation (onomatopoeia) to express an action, manner, or property. The class of ideophones is the least common syntactic category cross-linguistically; it occurs mostly in African, Australian, and Amerindian languages , and ...