Tips

Cards (6)

  • Paint a picture
    Use vivid/specific particulars
    List adjective in twos/threes that agree or contrast each other
  • Add emotion
    Passionate/emotive language + diction to trigger responses from reader
  • Sensory details
    Appeal to reader's sense of taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing
  • Vary sentence structure
    Change sentence length
    Use sonic devices e.g. repetition, alliteration
    Break/slow down rhythm
    Create moments of silence
  • Inventive phrases
    similes, metaphors, figurative language
    make word choice original, memorable, interesting
  • Navigate space of scene
    ...using your words
    Move into mind's eye of reader through multiple images, bringing new details into focus