Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Voice lesson #2 on diction


Write a simile comparing a tree with an animal (or something else if you prefer).  In your simile, use a word that is normally used as a noun as an adjective.

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  1. The palm trees were as long-necked as giraffes

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  2. The cactus were as spiked as hedgehogs

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  3. An almond tree like a broomed flamingo.

    Flavie

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  4. The Christmas pine was as cluttered as a teenager’s bedroom.

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  5. A cherry tree was standing there as a fluttering-lashed doe.

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  6. All the lilacs turned as dull as a river after storm.

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    1. All the lilacs turned dull as a stormed river*

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  7. The willow was bent over the river like a curtained roof.
    Elsa

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  8. Four sequoia trunks like green-haired elephant legs.

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  9. A walnut tree's trunk like a three-headed snake

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  10. A weeping willow's branches like a little girl's breezy hair.

    Emma

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  11. A cherrytree like a chickenpoxed child.

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  12. The weeping willow's leaves struggling in the the violent wind were like water hurtling in stunts.

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  13. A chestnut tree like a gingered afro
    Karolina

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  14. Lilacs like black-eyed nebulas.

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  15. An albizia in the warm sunset like a rainbowed toucan.
    Anna Gabrielle

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  16. A walnut tree like a subwayed capital.

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  17. A weeping willow like a natured wedding dress.

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  18. A cedar like a sunburnt giant

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  19. a beech like a bushy bearded man

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  20. The maple tree stood in the backyard as a pride-filled lion.
    Léa

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  21. A poplar was standing in the fields as a streched green bean in the kitchen garden.

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    1. A poplar was standing in the fields like a streched green bean in the kitchen garden*.

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  22. The bougainvillers like the morganite goddess
    Charline

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