Day: 17 November 2018

  • Onomatopoeia, Mimesis and Children’s Literature

    Onomatopoeia, Mimesis and Children’s Literature

    Someone in a children’s writing forum crowdsourced recently: What does a waterfall sound like? They were after an onomatopoeic sound. Some replied ‘trickle’. Others said ‘trickle’ is no good at all for a waterfall, as ‘trickle’ suggests a piddling amount of water. I don’t know what they decided, but I thought of my years learning […]

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