![]() ![]() If nothing else, most of them are awfully fun to say. Try using a line of dialogue to break up your storys. So, the next time you want your readers to lose themselves in your writing, consider tossing in an onomatopoeia or two. You can use dialogue tags to identify speakers as well as speed up or slow down moments of a story. A whopping 95 to 98 percent of both English and Tamil speakers said the rounded shape was Bouba and the spiky shape was Kiki. In American English, commas and periods should be placed within the quotation marks as long as they do not change the meaning of the quotation. Then they asked which name went with which shape. and Tamil speakers in India that the two shapes in the picture above were named Kiki and Bouba. Ramachandran and Edward Hubbard repeated an experiment Wolfgang Kohler had conducted in 1929. ![]() But there is a famous study that suggests the connection between certain sounds and meanings is not always arbitrary. Linguists and psychologists are still learning about the relationship between sounds and semantic meaning. Or, consider the words that come to mind when you think about gliding movement and smooth, wet surfaces: slide, slime, slippery, slick, slink, slither. There is a conspicuous abundance of gl- words to describe things that shimmer: glow, gloss, glisten, glitter, glimmer, gleam, glint, glare, glaze, glitz. Does your word start with gl-? Chances are, it does. Here’s an example: think of a word to describe something that shines in the darkness. For instance, if the speaker says 'Dansvull', and later corrects herself by saying 'Dansville', then the first occurance should be spelt in a way that reflects the mispronunciation. Sound symbolism describes the tendency for clusters of words with similar meanings to share certain sounds. Mispronounced words should in general be spelt correctly, unless the misspelling is needed in order to understand the subsequent dialogue. Still not convinced that just the sound of a word can affect your reader? Consider the phenomenon known as sound symbolism. ![]() Noun/pronoun: This is a character’s name or a pronoun (she, he, they, the magician, the killer, my best friend, etc.) that references who is doing the talking. Here are some steps to help you write an onomatopoeia: Step 1: Identify the sound. Writing onomatopoeia involves choosing words that sound like the actual sound they are representing. For any math fans out there, here’s a formula: Noun/pronoun + speaking verb dialogue tag. Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound of the object or action it refers to. Which sentence leaves you with a stronger impression of a clock ticking away across the room? Just as literary imagery helps your readers envision what you’re talking about, onomatopoeias help them hear it. In their simplest forms, dialogue tags are just two words. Really pay attention to the way the words themselves sound. If you don’t get why they’re different, try reading the sentences out loud. Diego lay awake, listening to the relentless tick-tock of the clock on the mantelpiece. ![]()
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