There is a salient aspect of language that I haven't handled hitherto--not alliteration, as in these consecutive h-words, but onomatopoeia, Greek for name-making. What it really means is what occurs when a word's sound echoes or represents the thing that it denotes. I recur to the examples given by J. H. Cuddon in his excellent "Literary Terms and Literary Theory" from Penguin Books, which I strongly recommend to one…
SOURCE: John Simon at 04:54PM on December 9, 2017