Showing posts with label sounds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sounds. Show all posts

Friday, March 04, 2016

Zip! Crash! Bang! Using Onomatopoeia

By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

This week’s refresher Friday takes a heavily updated look at the pros and cons of onomatopoeia. Enjoy!

I'm going to talk about something controversial, and I'll likely have readers split down the middle over this issue.

Onomatopoeia.

Those words that read like what they sound like. Creak. Bang. Swish. They’re those big comic book BAM! and POW! that show sound without having to describe the sound. For example:
Creak

Bob spun around. Was that a zombie or just the wind?