Is "The door creaked." an example of an onomatopoeia?

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phoebe
Mar 31, 2016

No.

Explanation:

Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates a noise. To go along with the example, using onomatopoeia with that particular sentence would be more like, "The door went 'creaaaaak'." because the word indicates the noise, etc.

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