<Ul> <Li> James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) coined the onomatopoeic tattarrattat for a knock on the door . It is listed as the longest palindromic word in The Oxford English Dictionary . </Li> <Li> Whaam! (1963) by Roy Lichtenstein is an early example of pop art, featuring a reproduction of comic book art that depicts a fighter aircraft striking another with rockets with dazzling red and yellow explosions . </Li> <Li> In the 1960s TV series Batman, comic book style onomatopoeias such as wham!, pow!, biff!, crunch! and zounds! appear onscreen during fight scenes . </Li> <Li> Ubisoft's XIII employed the use of comic book onomatopoeias such as bam!, boom! and noooo! during gameplay for gunshots, explosions and kills, respectively . The comic - book style is apparent throughout the game and is a core theme, and the game is an adaptation of a comic book of the same name . </Li> <Li> The chorus of American popular songwriter John Prine's song "Onomatopoeia" cleverly incorporates onomatopoeic words (though as discussed,' ouch!' is not the sound of pain): "Bang! went the pistol . Crash! went the window . Ouch! went the son of a gun . Onomatopoeia I don't wanna see ya Speaking in a foreign tongue ." </Li> <Li> The marble game KerPlunk is an onomatopoeia for the sound of the marbles dropping when one too many sticks has been removed . </Li> <Li> The Nickelodeon cartoon KaBlam! is implied to be onomotapoeic to a crash . </Li> <Li> Each episode of the TV series Harper's Island is given an onomatopoeic name which imitates the sound made in that episode when a character dies . For example, in the episode titled "Bang" a character is shot and fatally wounded, with the "Bang" mimicking the sound of the gunshot . </Li> <Li> Mad Magazine cartoonist Don Martin, already popular for his exaggerated artwork, often employed comic - book style onomatopoeic "sound effects" in his drawings (for example, "thwizzit" is the sound of a sheet of paper being yanked from a typewriter). Fans have compiled The Don Martin Dictionary, cataloguing each "sound" and its "meaning". </Li> </Ul> <Li> James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) coined the onomatopoeic tattarrattat for a knock on the door . It is listed as the longest palindromic word in The Oxford English Dictionary . </Li> <Li> Whaam! (1963) by Roy Lichtenstein is an early example of pop art, featuring a reproduction of comic book art that depicts a fighter aircraft striking another with rockets with dazzling red and yellow explosions . </Li> <Li> In the 1960s TV series Batman, comic book style onomatopoeias such as wham!, pow!, biff!, crunch! and zounds! appear onscreen during fight scenes . </Li>

Why might a common word like whisper be considered an example of onomatopoeia