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

[puddle]

...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!

Illuminated Lettering ??

no. It's one word and quite an unusual word, I think, that doesn't obviously relate to anything else.

This is really irritating me. And I don't know how to search for it without being able to draw an example.

Puddle, go and make sure ds finds out at school tomorrow

sorry, that sounds like an order. I meant, please make sure ds find out for us tomorrow!

autological?

apparently calligram also means a single word and not just a poem.

Do let us know!

So........... do we know what the word is yet????????????

PUDDLE! Please tell

Well?????????????????????????? And the answer is.................................??????????

Well why didn't yo ask...

the answer is (I think)

OCULARMATOPHEA (or however it is spelt)

But actually I think ocularmatophia is more about the letters that make up the word in 'normal' font the eg that is normally given is 'boob'.

I think there is something else for a word which is artiscally drawn like its meaning, e.g. 'cold' written with dripping icicles

And still I hang on with bated breath!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well???????????????????????????????????

I'm sure its calligram, this can be a poem or just a single word as mentioned earlier. I teach this in year 3 and we have always called them calligrams, the children use wordart etc to make calligrams out of words like rainbow, stairs, spooky etc

No one word for this, that I can find. My Glossary of Literary Terms (4th edition) describes Concrete Poetry as 'a recent term ofr an ancient type, pattern poems, which are experiments with the visual shape in which a text is presented on the page'. It gives examples from Greek poets, beginning in the C3rd B.C. and also says that this was popular (under the name of 'emblem poetry') in the Renaissance, when the lines of a poem would be made to vary in length in such a way that their printed shape is in the outline of the subject of the poem.
It goes on 'concrete poetry isnow a world-wide movement [...] The practice of such poetry varies widely, but the common feature is the use of a radically reduced language, typed or printed in such a way as to force the poem on the reader's attention as an object which is to be perceived as a visual whole.'

That's the best I can do!