Tips for English Language
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- Created on: 04-06-18 15:55
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- Tips for English Language
- Be Specific
- Choose Precise Imagery
- Deepen descriptive sentences using comparisons
- Metaphors
- Similes
- Minimise '-ly' adverbs
- WRONG Example: "She fell awkwardly down the hill"
- CORRECT Example: "She tumbled down the hill"
- Filter descriptive sentences through characters' Point of view
- eg. If describing a child
- How might they describe things compared to how an adult would.
- Reduced vocabulary, simpler sentence construction
- How their physical reality might impact their impressions.
- eg. Being shorter
- For example, how spaces may look immense compared to how they would appear to an adult.
- How might they describe things compared to how an adult would.
- Applies to the character's psychology
- If your character is gloomy, how would they describe an idyllic landscape compared to a character feeling carefree and overjoyed by their surroundings.
- eg. If describing a child
- Good descriptive sentences
- Places
- - It was a palatial home, with high, cool rooms, floors of stone and marble, and elaborately carved furniture with rich upholstery.
- - Gave way to a soaring, majestic network of thick-set vines, high archway and domed ceilings.
- - Streaks of gay sunlight darted through the open window.
- People
- - A smart gentleman dresses in a flowing brown cloak and a brown bejewelled hat.
- - He was a fine figure of a man, with very yellow hair and narrow, haughty eyes.
- - They were dressed in dazzling white robes with gold embroidery.
- Feelings
- - Her heart thumped wildly when the audience exploded with loud cheers and claps. She grinned happily under the glory of the spotlight.
- - His face evidenced the struggle between shame and defiance in his heart.
- - There was a song in every heart, cheerfulness in every face and a spring in every step.
- - He looked straight ahead , white-faced, tight-lipped, his expression a mask of suppressed rage.
- Places
- Be Specific
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