... is distort and distressing to the reader as the purity of the wing plumage being contaminated with evidence of killing and bloodshed seems to be an unnecessary injustice. Rosetti uses onomatopoeia as she describes the "rustling" hedgerow tops which imply the reality of the dream at the present moment, to the extent where the speaker can even hear the sounds around ... ...

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... than about 4,000 or 5,000 years. Attempts to derive human speech from imitations of the cries of animals and birds or from mere ejaculations of joy and grief, as if onomatopoeia were the essence of language, were ridiculed for their inadequacy by the Oxford philologist F. Max Muller in the 19th century and have been dubbed the bowwow and pooh-pooh theories ... ...

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