Question

What is a description of the literary device onomatopoeia?(1 point)
Responses

A word’s pronunciation sounds like the thing it describes.
A word’s pronunciation sounds like the thing it describes.

Two things are compared with the use of the word like or as.
Two things are compared with the use of the word like or as.

A writer gives human characteristics to something nonhuman.
A writer gives human characteristics to something nonhuman.

Two things are compared without the use of the word like or as.
Two things are compared without the use of the word like or as .

Answer 1

"A word’s pronunciation sounds like the thing it describes."

(Example: buzz, bang, hiss — these are onomatopoeia.)