onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia are words that represent sounds - text-based onomatopoeia are extremely commonplace in comics and illustrations. Onomatopoeia are usually written outside of speech bubbles, and almost always drawn in proximity to whatever or whoever is making the sound. Not all onomatopoeia are "formal words" - blorp, shlick, thwap, splurt are examples of coined words used as onomatopoeia. List of Onomatopoeia An…
