Conomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is a type of word that when said aloud sounds like the sound it describes. The word "thump", well, sounds like a thump, you can hear the sound in your head as you say it. Think of onomatopoeia as words that in a comic book you would see in super large capitalized bold letters surrounded by a zig-zaggy speech bubble. Other examples of onomatopoeia include yowl, achoo, ah, ha, aha, roof/bark/ruff, babble, boom, bonk, munch, crunch, tick, tock, coo, echo, eek, eew, um, eh, huh, howl, crash, kerplunk, knock, moan, meow, mrow, patter, purr, slash, screech, splat, shh, varoom, clack, rip, raspy, zoom, ring, ding, rap, tap, yap, yelp, yawn etc.
