Thursday 16th of April 2020
Show Don’t tell
Example
Now try writing your own versions for..
1 The boy was sad.
2 The dog wanted to go for a walk.
3 It was cold outside
4 The student was bored.
5 The bedroom was a mess.
6 The garden was beautiful.
7 It was a stormy night.
8 The cake was delicious.
- The boy was sad he was sitting in a puddle of his own tears locked in his room. His room was dark and quiet. He sat there for hours and didn’t move for hours.
4. after school on the way home the student had lost their house key. When they got home there parents weren’t home so they went back to school to try and find their house key but they could not find it anywhere. So they went home and sat outside until there parents got home.
5.it is the weekend and it the sky was grey of in the distance there was lighting and thunder cracking in the sky. the street was like a lake from how much rain had fallen.
After the lesson
1. The girl was shaking like a leaf.
2. The boy slept like a log.
3. The children crept as quietly as mice.
4. The icicle shone like the sun
Quietly, shaking, slept, sun
Metaphors describe something by saying it is something else.
1. The sun was a flaming golf ball in the sky.
2. The bear was a furry giant
3. The teacher was an erupting volcano, exploding with lava.
4. Her hair was a silky blanket.
Giant, hair, flaming, erupting
Personification is giving an object human features or characteristics.
1. The wind whistled through the trees.
2. The daffodils nodded their yellow bonnets in the wind.
3. The refreshing pool called the holidaymakers.
4. The teapot danced on the shelves during the earthquake.
Yellow, teapot, called, whistled
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