Voice lesson #1 on detail

Until I returned to Cuba, I never realized how many blues exist.  The aquamarines near the shoreline, the azures of deeper waters, the eggshell blues beneath my grandmother’s eyes, the fragile indigos tracking her hands.  There’s a blue, too, in the curves of the palms, and the edges of the words we speak, a blue tinge to the sand and the seashells and the plump gull on the beach.  The mole by Abuela’s mouth is also blue, a vanishing blue.
-Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban

Choose a color and describe a scene using at least three varieties of that color.  Try to mix details of landscape and people. 

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.

Voice lesson #1 on diction

Fill in the blank below with an adverb:

                                   The man laughed ______________________.

Your adverb should make the laugh express an attitude.  Do not state the attitude.  Instead, let the adverb imply it.