Why Writers Use Their Toolbox

Why I Love Writing

Writers often use alliteration, onomatopoeia, similes, metaphors, personification, and imagery. Writers use these linguistic structures because when writing, writers want to convey a feeling and message of realism and intrigue. Alliteration is the process of using multiple words in a row and making them sound the same at the beginning of the word. Alliteration is a wonderful device because it makes remembering and understanding things more easy and interesting. Alliteration is very interesting to me because it involves sound and the feel of the mouth when sounding out the word while also reading it. Alliteration is something that I occasionally use because it makes my writing more interesting and beautiful to read. Onomatopoeia is the usage of words like “bang” or “boom” or “pow” because they sound like what they describe. Onomatopoeia is remarkably interesting and useful because it is a wonderful and simplistic literary device that writers use to show the meaning of the word in the sound of the word. Similes are sentences or phrases that use the word “like” because when they use the word like they are comparing two different things and finding similarities. Metaphors are basically similes that don’t use the word “like” which basically takes a simile to an extreme. Personification is making of something inanimate seem alive through the usage of words that give it characteristics of a living being. The last literary device that I would love to talk about is imagery. Imagery is a powerful language tool that writers use to convey an idea into an image that shows how beautiful or important the idea is. I hope in this writing I was able to clarify why writers use the language tools they use.