Ways to Create a Word Picture for Your Reader
L 3.3a Choose words and phrases for effect.
Show Don't Tell
I'm scared. I huddled, shaking under my bed during the thunderstorm.
She is happy. After they yelled, "Suprise!" she smiled tremendously and jumped up and down.
She is happy. After they yelled, "Suprise!" she smiled tremendously and jumped up and down.
Similes (using like or as to compare something)
as clumsy as a bull in a china shop
as mean as a junkyard dog
as toothy as a great white sharkś
as mad as a hornet
as mean as a junkyard dog
as toothy as a great white sharkś
as mad as a hornet
Similes (comparing something directly - use is or was)
The snow is a white blanket.
The classroom was a zoo.
My big brother is a couch potato.
He is a walking dictionary.
Your brain is a computer.
The classroom was a zoo.
My big brother is a couch potato.
He is a walking dictionary.
Your brain is a computer.
Nonliteral Meanings (expression that does not mean what it literally says)
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Onomatopoeia (sound effects)
achoo, bang, crash, crunch, hiss, kerplunk, meow, oink, roar, splat, swoosh, thunk, vroom-vroom, whiz, zap, zing