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Word Choice

Word Choice . Verbs, Adverbs, and Concrete Nouns . Directions. Define in your RWNB the word given to you on the piece of paper. ( 3 minutes) How might you use that word in context? Using the object placed on your desk, create a simile for the word on your paper and put it into a sentence.

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Word Choice

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  1. Word Choice Verbs, Adverbs, and Concrete Nouns

  2. Directions • Define in your RWNB the word given to you on the piece of paper. (3 minutes) How might you use that word in context? • Using the object placed on your desk, create a simile for the word on your paper and put it into a sentence. Example: My word is Happiness and I have a glass cup in front of me • Happiness is the high-pitched squeak, ringing off of the lip of a tall glass cup. • Happiness is like the first gulp of a carbonated coke, sweet and refreshing, touching my lips for the first time.

  3. Learning Goal: Be able to identify abstract nouns used in a section of your excerpt. Be able to identify verbs in a section of your excerpt. Reconsider word choice concerning verbs and abstract nouns.

  4. Quickwrite: Respond to the poem by Langston Hughes. What images does he evoke? To what does he compare a dream? How is his language fresh and out-of-the-box? What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

  5. Evoking Images for Abstract Nouns with Concrete things Abstract Noun - A noun that names an idea, event, quality, or concept. Let’s name a few… Let’s find a few in your writing and highlight those…

  6. Give it the thumbs up or thumbs down… “Love is like a battlefield.” "Time is like a clock in my heart” Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear” They are as gentleAs zephyrs, blowing below the violet…”

  7. Revising… Choose three abstract nouns that you have already in your novel. Make sure those are highlighted for us to see. Try to create a simile, evoking imagery for the reader, for these abstract nouns. Think out-of-the box. Go beyond the cliché..i.e. Her love fluttered like a butterfly.

  8. Action Verbs Go from passive voice to active voice by deleting the “BE” verbs. is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been

  9. ORIGINAL SENTENCE: Rockwell was a beautiful lake. NEW SENTENCE: Rockwell Lake echoed with the sounds of Canadian geese.

  10. Let’s Practice The gravel road was on the left side of barn. The football player was fast when he ran down the field. The bomb had been detonated and there was utter confusion amongst the crowd.

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