Question

Identify the onomatopoeic word(s):
He sprayed white hues across the canvas, splashed shades of red and blue at the edges, and all the while sloshed his mighty brush into the colorful bottles of paint.

• A. sprayed
• B. splashed
• C. sloshed
• D. All the above

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

All the above

An onomatopoeia is 'the formation of a word from the sound associated with what it's named'.

Option D: 'Sprayed' imitates the sound of the action 'to spray': to spread liquid 'white hues' in small drops over an area 'canvas'.

'Splashed' makes the sound of the action 'to splash': cause liquid 'shades of red and blue' to strike or fall on something in irregular drops 'at the edged'.

'Sloshed', too, makes the sound of the action 'slosh': move through liquid with a splashing sound 'into the colourful bottles of paint'.

Hence, all these words are onomatopoeic and option D is correct.

Options A, B and C are wrong because one option does not correctly identify the other words in each case.