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WORDLE POW
Oh! No! Mato! Peia!
A bang-clattering edition of a daily prompt
I love words that mean what they sound like. SPLAT, FLUSH, BOING, BOOM, CRACK, SIZZLE, BANG, BLAM, and all the cool others. These onomatopoetic words are always fun to say, write, think about.
They are also cartoon and comic book favorites with BOOM and POW appearing in pointy star shapes, and HISS and SIZZLE showing up in fonts that add to their onomatopoetic appeal.
And how about that word itself! Is onomatopoeia what it sounds like to write a word that means what it sounds like? It would be a literary crime if it wasn’t.
Sprinkling onomatopoetic words into your work adds some SIZZLE, POW, and PITTER PATTER CLATTER to your work and makes a SPLASHY DRIZZLY DRIPPY SWISHY SPLAT as they HUM, HISS, BUZZ, CRACKLE, MOO, GROWL, GRUMBLE, GIGGLE, HOWL AND WHOMP their ROARING CREAKING THUMPY JINGLE-BELLY way through your readers brain lobes and GRAPPLE, CLINK, TINKLE, and SLAP their way through the imagination of all five senses. But Oh No Mato Peia sometimes too much is too much.
Sorry about that, but SPLAT was today’s Wordle, and it couldn’t be helped. Thanks NYTCo Communications.
