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Emotions and Colours
Work in pairs for this activity. What colour do you associate with each of the following emotions or ideas?
e.g. Youth is GREEN as the oaks’ first leaves in spring.
1. Love is
2. Sorrow is
3. Honesty is
4. Happiness is
5. Truth is
6. Faith is
7. Anger is
8. Fear is
9. Surprise is
The paragraph below describes a dismal winter scene. Fill in words from the WORD-BOX below to create a wintery atmosphere. Write down the completed paragraph and give it a suitable title. .
It was a ________ day. The_______ trees, stripped of their autumn glory, bowed their_____backs against the _______wind. It had been drizzling all day and the ground was_______and______ . Even the _____ , ______ grass seemed broken in spirit and lay bent and bruised in the mud.
WORD BOX:
bleak | bare | old | green | gnarled |
freezing | weary | mean | sodden | cold |
lush | drenched | tall | muddy | cold |
huge | black | wet | dismal | gaunt |
glowing | dreary | parched | mild | gaunt |
Choose ONE of the following topics.
Write a descriptive paragraph of approximately 50 words.
The old house on the corner
The storm
A moonlight night
Play-time
The flood
Summer, autumn, spring!
Walking to school
Riding the wave
Listen carefully while the educator reads this:
A good writer works magic with words. Readers can “picture” what he is “painting”. His figurative language is original. Very often he compares what he wishes to describe to something that we recognise. In our imagination we connect the similarities and so the word “picture” becomes vivid and clear.
What is the difference between ‘figurative’ and ‘ literal’ ?
Imagine that you are driving on a pass road, enjoying the scenery when a car comes whizzing round the corner, and the driver leans out of the car and shouts through his window at you: “PIG!”
You think he is being rude and you become quite annoyed by the driver’s poor manners.
Then you drive around the corner – and straight into a pig that is standing in the middle of the road!
You see, THE DRIVER meant there REALLY was a pig around the corner - LITERALLY.
YOU thought he was speaking figuratively and that he was IMPLYING that you were driving like a road hog. You thought FIGURATIVELY.
Here are some FIGURES OF SPEECH you should know. Study these examples and try to use your own original imagery in your creative writing.
Simile
The moon floated up, like a bubble of gold,
And the wood was all silver and jade ...
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