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

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

Onomatopoeia

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.

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

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

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eponymous?

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

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

it's a visual prototype

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.

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

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

Is it not a calligram?

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.

Or is a calligram just the shape of the word?

Nope

calligram

Don't don't what it is tho!

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

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.

Is it a pictograph?

no not a pictograph

Pictogram, maybe?

no, pictogram same as pictograph

ideogram?