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.
The palm trees were as long-necked as giraffes
ReplyDeleteThe cactus were as spiked as hedgehogs
ReplyDeleteAn almond tree like a broomed flamingo.
ReplyDeleteFlavie
The Christmas pine was as cluttered as a teenager’s bedroom.
ReplyDeleteA cherry tree was standing there as a fluttering-lashed doe.
ReplyDeleteAll the lilacs turned as dull as a river after storm.
ReplyDeleteAll the lilacs turned dull as a stormed river*
DeleteThe willow was bent over the river like a curtained roof.
ReplyDeleteElsa
Four sequoia trunks like green-haired elephant legs.
ReplyDeleteA walnut tree's trunk like a three-headed snake
ReplyDeleteA weeping willow's branches like a little girl's breezy hair.
ReplyDeleteEmma
A cherrytree like a chickenpoxed child.
ReplyDeleteThe weeping willow's leaves struggling in the the violent wind were like water hurtling in stunts.
ReplyDeleteA chestnut tree like a gingered afro
ReplyDeleteKarolina
Lilacs like black-eyed nebulas.
ReplyDeleteAn albizia in the warm sunset like a rainbowed toucan.
ReplyDeleteAnna Gabrielle
A walnut tree like a subwayed capital.
ReplyDeleteA weeping willow like a natured wedding dress.
ReplyDeletean oak like an imposing elephant
ReplyDeleteA cedar like a sunburnt giant
ReplyDeletea beech like a bushy bearded man
ReplyDeleteThe maple tree stood in the backyard as a pride-filled lion.
ReplyDeleteLéa
A poplar was standing in the fields as a streched green bean in the kitchen garden.
ReplyDeleteA poplar was standing in the fields like a streched green bean in the kitchen garden*.
DeleteThe bougainvillers like the morganite goddess
ReplyDeleteCharline