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Word Painting Tool Kit

Discover the art of effective writing by enhancing your descriptions using participles, absolutes, appositives, adjectives, and action verbs. This toolkit guides you through the process of transforming simple sentences into vivid imagery that captivates your audience. By employing participial phrases and absolute constructions, you can add depth and dynamism to your writing. Practice with fun examples to paint your sentences with creativity, making your narratives more engaging and expressive. Elevate your writing and learn how to show rather than tell!

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Word Painting Tool Kit

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  1. Word Painting Tool Kit How to show and not tell! 

  2. Painting with Participles • Add verbs with ingendings to the beginning or the end of a sentence • Take the following sentence: “The diamond-scaled snakes attacked their prey.” • Now add the following participles to the beginning of the sentence: “Hissing, slithering, and coiling, the diamond-scaled snakes attacked their prey.” • Add participial phrases to your sentences: “Hissing their forked red tongues and coiling their cold bodies, the diamond-scaled snakes attacked their prey.”

  3. Now you try • Write down a sentence about your watermark event. • Add two or three participles • Create a participle phrase • Additional example: “Flying through the air on the wings of a dream, the Olympic long jumper thrust the weight of his whole body forward” (Cathleen Conry).

  4. Painting with Absolutes • Add a two-word combination containing a noun and a verb with an ing or ed ending to a sentence. • Take the following sentence: “The cat climbed the tree.” • Now add the following absolutes to the beginning of the sentence: “Claws digging, feet kicking, the cat climbed the tree.” • Add absolute phrases to your sentences: “Feet trembling on the snow-covered rocks, the mountain climber edged along the cliff.” • Additional example: “I glanced at my clock, digits glowing floresecent blue in the inky darkness of my room” (Jenn Coppolo).

  5. Your turn! • Either create a new sentence about your watermark experience, or use the previous sentence. • Now try inserting a couple of absolutes… • Then make an absolute phrase from your absolute.

  6. Painting with Appositives • Add a noun that adds a second image to a preceding noun. • Take the following sentence: “The raccoon enjoys eating turtle eggs.” • Now add the following appositive to the sentence: “The raccoon, a scavenger, enjoys eating turtle eggs.” • Add appositive phrases to your sentences: “The raccoon, a midnight scavenger who roams lake shorelines in search of food, enjoys eating turtle eggs.” • Additional example: “The volcano, a ravenous God of fire, spewed forth lava and ash across the mountain” (Ben Quagliata).

  7. Your turn • This time, turn to the person next to you and look at one of their sentences. • Help “paint their sentence” by using appositives.

  8. Painting with Adjectives Shifted out of Order • Add adjectives out of order. • Take the following sentence: “The large, red-eyed, angry bull moose charged the intruder.” • Now move adjectives out of order: “The large bull moose, red-eyed and angry, charged the intruder.” • Additional example: “The boxer, twisted and tormented, felt no compassion for his contender” (Chris Hloros).

  9. Create a sentence about your watermark that has adjectives. • Now take the adjectives and move them around. • Can you be more descriptive?

  10. Painting with Action Verbs • Replace being verbs with action verbs. • Here is an example of a sentence with a being verb: “The gravel road was on the left side of the barn.” • Here is the same sentence with an action verb: “The gravel road curled around the left side of the barn.”

  11. Last one! • Now you write a sentence using “to be”. (Or take one that you have already written) • Change the “be” with an action verb

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