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Use EXACT WORDS to create a clear picture: woman = adolescent (gen-Xer, thirty-something, senior citizen) dog = poodle (Rottweiler, cocker spaniel) held = toted (displayed, clutched) hat = chapeau (fedora, beret) IV. Use PHRASES and CLAUSES that add details to complete your desired picture/effect: participial phrases: begin with words that end with ed or ing that are not preceded by helping verbs and are thus not verbs (boiling in the pot, ruptured from strain) prepositional phrases begin with words such as in, on, with, without relative clauses begin with relative pronouns, such as who, which, that other transitional words & phrases used in description: in, on, above, under, behind, near, up, over, below, high, low, outside, downstairs, upstairs, between, beneath, beside, front, north, east, toward, among, against, onto, inside, around, throughout ahead of, close to, in the center, in the corner, on the edge, down by, to the left of, at the top of, , to the right, back and forth, at the end of, side by side, in back of, next to, facing poodle wearing a red sweater hat with a white ribbon and blue violet woman who had cosmetic surgery performed recently V. Combine ALL four: In a dark brown felt fedora trimmed with a white ribbon and accented by a sky blue violet, the tall, pale, emaciated adolescent girl, who obviously had recent cosmetic surgery performed on her lips, gratuitously displayed to the rapacious paparazzi her miniature onyx poodle that was dressed in a red knitted sweater. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ II. Vivid Verbs Leap into Action: Use verbs that express action (action verbs as opposed to Linking Verbs that express state of being). Not to be: Forms of the verb be represent the weakest of verbs (is, am, are, was, were). Stay Active: Use the active voice in which the subject performs the action (as opposed to the passive voice in which the action is performed by the subject) Do not be Passive: Passive voice moves the subject towards the sentences end and complicates subject-verb agreement. 1. POETIC EXAMPLES: 1) ...the wind on the warm sea dozes, ... (Charles Algernon Swinburne) 2) ... the door upon its hinges groans. (John Keats) 3) The high masts flickered ... (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) 4) The light white cloud swam over us. (Lord Tennyson) 5) All day the wind breathes low... (Lord Tennyson) 6) The night wind wailed round the empty room ... (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) 7) The white foam spun behind us. (Rudyard Kipling) 8) How the sleet whips the pane! (Matthew Arnold) 9) So all night long the storm roared on: ... (John Greenleaf Whittier) 10) A late lark twitters from the quiet skies ... (Henley) 11) And the rain poured down from one black cloud; ... (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) 12) The spotted hawk swoops by ... (Walt Whitman) 13) The hot sun bit the garden beds, ... (William Morris) 14) The last red leaf is whirled away. (Lord Tennyson) 15) Where the grey seas glitter, ... (G. K. Chesterton) __________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. EXERCISE: DIRECTIONS: Write a descriptive sentence using the following prompts: Example for #1: What kind of wind? How did it blow? The wistful summer wind whispered sadly in her ear. 1) the blowing of the wind 2) the running of a stream 3) the flying of birds 4) the shining of sun, stars, moon (choose 1) 5) the sounds made by birds 6) the falling of snow, rain, hail (choose 1) 7) the noises made by cars, trucks, planes, motorboats (choose 1) 8) the sight & sound of fire 9) a car turning the corner 10) a woman talking to a man --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. EXERCISE: DIRECTIONS: Rewrite the following sentences: Replace LINKING VERBS with the more descriptive ACTION VERBS. Remain in the PRESENT tense. Remain in the ACTIVE voice. Add descriptive words (adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, relative clauses) where appropriate in order to create an impression suitable for an Edgar Allan Poe story. Examples: Linking verb: A spider's web is in the corner of the ceiling. 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