How to Write Sounds with Onomatopoeia You've probably seen onomatopoeia in comic books where the good guy punches the bad guy and you'll see “Pow!” or a bomb goes off and you see the sound effect “boom!” Onomatopoeia is for more than comic books though. Adding onomatopoeia to your ...
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In real life, the sounds of nature are often key indicators of approaching storms. You can bring these sound effects to your descriptions by using onomatopoeia, a device where words mimic the sounds of their meaning. For example, if a thunderstorm figures prominently in your story, the thunder...
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imitates its sound, likeboomorbuzz. Using onomatopoeia is like using dialogue. You put theonomatopoeic wordin quotation marks to distinguish it from the voice of the narrator. Like dialogue, using onomatopoeia well will toss the reader right into the action from the first sentence of your story...
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Besides onomatopoeia, I never thought there was another way to really describe sound until I started reallylistening. There are noises all around you. As I write this, I hear the click of keys, the low hum of the air conditioner, the whoosh of a car passing by, soft laughter from anothe...