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Brainstorm pairs of contrasting images.

Can you find two as strikingly different as kitties and guns? Flowers and rocks?

Class List…

Quick write (WNB)

Pick your favorite pair. Develop each image with specific details,

arranging the two images in alternating lines or sentences in a poem/paragraph.

Share/Discuss…

What effects do you achieve?

“The Giant Water Bug”

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More with Sensory Imagery

Show & Tell/ Childhood Images – see worksheet.

Use the object you brought in or a childhood object to complete the handout.

I ’LL COLLECT THESE NEXT EXERCISES.

More with Imagery

Sound - Paper

Choose a place or time of day you know well and write about how it sounds.

You might find yourself using words that start with the same letter (alliteration) and words that sound like what they’re describing (onomatopoeia).

Taste - Paper

Help yourself to a piece of candy. OR, pass and imagine you’re eating something else.

When it first enters your mouth (before you chew), what does it taste like?

Bite into it and write down what it tastes like as the flavor moves through your mouth.

Chew it and describe the taste. Does it change?Now, swallow or spit it out and describe the

taste left in your mouth. Compare the taste to other tastes

Smell - Paper

Write down three smells you are aware of right now (cleaner, perfume/cologne, food, wood, books, etc.)

Think of what one of the smells reminds you of.

Write about it for a minute or two.

Touch - Paper

Think of something you are very familiar with touching– an article of clothing, a piece of technology, an animal, part of your house, etc.

Write about the feel of it in detail. Compare it to something else.

Sight

Locate any object in the room.Describe what this object looks like without

relying on adjectives.

Homework

Write in your WNB.