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URGENT homework help! What is the name of a word......

39 replies

puddle · 16/10/2007 19:08

...that is depicted looking like what the word is.

For example the word furry shown as hairy letters. Or the word 'spooky' dripping blood and covered in spiders webs.

mental block here from ds and myself!

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puddle · 16/10/2007 19:20

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upsyderlor · 16/10/2007 19:38

i have absoloutely no idea, sorry - just bumping for you really - good luck

SofiaAmes · 16/10/2007 19:42

Onomatopoeia

SofiaAmes · 16/10/2007 19:42

sorry just read your post more closely and I don't think I gave you the right answer. That's for things that sound like what they are.

Tinker · 16/10/2007 19:43

Onomatopoeia is when it sounds like the meaning rather than looks like it though

dooley1 · 16/10/2007 19:43

no onamatopoeia imitates a sound like buzz
it doesn't look like it

Tinker · 16/10/2007 19:43

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Lulumama · 16/10/2007 19:43

eponymous?

splishsplosh · 16/10/2007 19:44

Never knew there was one. onomatopaeia (sp?) means words that sound like the meaning of the word I thought

SoMuchToBats · 16/10/2007 19:46

No, eponym is a word that is named after someone.

MarsLady · 16/10/2007 19:56

it's a visual prototype

Habbibu · 16/10/2007 20:01

I googled "visual onomatopoeia", and that seems to be what a lot of people call it. It sounds like it should have a word all its own, though.

pointydog · 16/10/2007 20:07

this thread is annoying me. I used to know the name for that but I have forgotten. There is a one word term for it. nnnngg

pointydog · 16/10/2007 20:11

there's 'rebus'. I don;t think this is a rebus though.

a rebus is like
r
o
roads
d
s

and that means crossroads

97PercentGingerbread · 16/10/2007 20:16

Is it not a calligram?

97PercentGingerbread · 16/10/2007 20:16

I know historically a calligram was a poem but I seem to remember that it can also be used to describe a phrase or word like this.

97PercentGingerbread · 16/10/2007 20:18

Or is a calligram just the shape of the word?

StrawberryMartini · 16/10/2007 20:19

Nope

calligram

Don't don't what it is tho!

pointydog · 16/10/2007 20:19

calligram? maybe. I can't remember at all.

97PercentGingerbread · 16/10/2007 20:19

Actually it probably is just the shape of the word or text.

This is going to bug me. There is a name for it I'm sure.

BroccoliSpears · 16/10/2007 20:20

Is it a pictograph?

pointydog · 16/10/2007 20:21

no not a pictograph

LongMeg · 16/10/2007 20:21

Pictogram, maybe?

pointydog · 16/10/2007 20:26

no, pictogram same as pictograph

SatanGeorge · 16/10/2007 20:42

ideogram?