An ornate style of writing (in Elizabethan England) marked by the excessive use of alliteration, antithesis and mythological similes.
An instance of euphuism.
The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle," "stutter," or "hiss".
The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime.