Quote Originally Posted by jaeangel
Some writers do use onomatopoeia because that's their thing, that's they way they write, but my eyes usually tend to skip over it and continue to the story. (Onomatopoeia, by the way, is what this particular literary device is called.) It's not as if most people who read don't have enough imagination to imagine a girl screaming openmouthed as a whip blisters her ass...
Onomatopoeia has pro's and cons; when used in the sense of expressing sound, i agree, it can be completely overused and fail to achieve it's objective. As a literary device, it is however often used much more subtely, to great affect. Many of the best (IMHO ) English poets made the use of onomatopoeia into an art form, using it to express literary freedom following Neo-Classicism.

There's a thread on onomatopoeia, if you're interested, it's here:

http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1104



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