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23 maj 2019 · Sounds are ‘vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person’s ear’. You have to use the five senses when you write. Readers want to experience what your characters see, smell, hear, taste, and touch.
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20 wrz 2019 · In order to consider the auditory properties of literary texts—and thus to become more clearly aware of them—we first need to define how sound is used in literature, and to consider how these processes can be defined and how individual auditory properties can be typologized.
What does the adjective sound mean? There are 31 meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective sound , two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
17 gru 2019 · Sounds – and especially music – in literature offer you a unique opportunity to “plant” complex (yet still subjective) interpretations into your readers’ minds, in ways visual representation cannot.
Five of the most effective methods of using words and language to improve and enhance your sounds in writing are Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, Metaphors/Similes, Hyperbole and Assonance.
8 maj 2018 · This chapter examines the relationship between timbre and language, offering a critical review of theoretical and empirical thought on timbre semantics and providing a preliminary cognitive linguistic account of timbre description.
SOUND AND LITERATURE. What does it mean to write in, through and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these questions by attending to the energy gener-ated by the sonic in literary studies from the late nineteenth century to the present.