Using ambitious language and colour imagery to improve your descriptive writing
I can rewrite a description of an image using ambitious language devices and colour imagery.
Using ambitious language and colour imagery to improve your descriptive writing
I can rewrite a description of an image using ambitious language devices and colour imagery.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Free writing is designed to help you unleash your creativity.
- Rewriting is the process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas and choosing more precise words.
- You want to be precise and ambitious in your use of language devices in order to evoke specific emotions in the reader.
- The way you use colour imagery can also affect the mood of a piece of writing.
Keywords
Rewrite - the process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas and choosing more precise words
Ambitious - it needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful
Evoke - to bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind
Cliche - a phrase, remark or opinion that has very often been said or expressed before
Enhance - to improve the quality, amount or strength of something
Common misconception
That using similes is in itself effective descriptive writing.
You should aim to have a simile that creates a specific emotion and avoids clichés.
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a process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas
it needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful
to recall a feeling, memory, or image
a phrase or remark that has been expressed often
to improve the quality, amount or strength of something