25 Imagery // Due the week of March 18, 2017

Hi Everyone!

This week, you learned about using imagery to paint a picture in the minds of your readers! Imagery uses all five senses to do so, using:

1. Similes (comparisons using "like" or "as")
2. Specific adjectives and adverbs
3. Specific nouns
4. Specific verbs

• A paragraph with bad imagery:
• The girl walked into the candy land. It was really amazing and neat. It smelled wonderful. Everything tasted great! She saw so many cool things!
• This description includes multiple senses (smell, taste, sight, etc), but it's not specific enough to actually give us an image in our mind.
• A paragraph with good imagery:
• The girl walked into the candy land and was hit with the strong smell of chocolate mint. Above her, she saw light, puffy pink clouds that were close enough for her to touch. When she grabbed one, it was so soft she could barely feel it—like a down feather. Immediately, she stuck it into her mouth and tasted grape sweet and sourness. 

Homework this week is to write a ~1.5-4 page story that has an exciting ending just like the last one, but also really focuses on including a bunch of imagery, probably with some sort of world-building! It's not a lot of space for a story, so remember, you're not writing a novel—the plot should be relatively simple (but with a twist at the ending helps).

(4 pages is pushing it for length; lots of people wanted to be able to write more so I extended the 3 page limit, but try to not make it more than 4 pages. I love that you guys want to write more, but it just makes it tough for peer reviewing to make it too long. We will be getting a chance to write novels at the end of the year, and those can be as long as you'd like :D)