Creative Writing 3

1. Complete the sentences using creative metaphors

1. His mind was like a rock
2. Annie believes that life is like a book unfolding one chapter at a time.
3. The house was standing on my head
4. He is ___ a bullet train on his bike.
5. The leaves were like a school of fish in the stream

2. Fill in the blanks to create oxymorons

1. Diana took a small sip of lemonade from the glass.

2. The apple pie baked by my aunt was awfully good.
3. Eating at the restaurant was the only option Gabriel had.
4. Liam let out a faint scream when he saw the spider.
5. The institute gets most of the job done by genuine 3 copy.
6. Their strained relationship is an __open_ secret.

3. Show-don’t-tell
1. Tell: Clara wrapped herself in a blanket and looked out of the window.
Show: Clara rolles up in her comfy blanket, which cuddled
her skin as the finest rabbit fur. peeping out of the window, she gazed at the
mighty sun. The joy of the children playing in the street made her smile

2. Tell: Nick was terribly afraid of the dark.

Show: As his mother turned off the light and left the room, Nick started t shiver.
He hid under the covers, and held the sheet. Holding his breath, he quavered as
the wind went past the curtain.

4. Give five SYNONYMS for each adjective

1. soft:

mushy

squashy
pulpy
pappy
slushy
2. dirty:
 soiled

grimy

grubby

filthy

mucky

3. clean:

4. washed
5. scrubbed
6. cleansed

7. spotless
8. unstained

4. easy:
effortless
painless
trouble-free
facile

5. sweet:
Plesant
Sugary
Sweetened
Delightful
Honeyed
Sugar coated

5. Add personifications

Our Old House

Our house was our old palace . Although he is old and rusted with every gust of
wind, he never stop to protect us from the elements. He wraps his body of
bricks and mortar around us and keeps us safe. He’s always been a dear friend
to us and we would never lose him.

6. Describing a city: give two suitable words for each of the adjectives

a crowded place: caaotic messy

fast-paced:hasty hurried

modern:present current
with a rich and varied mix of culture and languages:assorteted,diverse
:
full of danger or risk:thereat menance

having or showing impressive beauty or scale: magnificent

growing and doing well:floushing robust
having a large area:ditrict igantic area spacious vast
calm and untroubled:still tranquil

7. Said is Dead!

1. “The pain in my shoulder is getting worse,” ___ Abdul.

2. “Your bike is not as good as mine,” ____ Lin.
3. “The teacher gives us too much homework,” ____ Tim.
4. “Can you swim four lengths of the pool?” ____ Paul.
5. “I can easily swim four lengths,” ____ Mary.
6. “There is to be no talking during fire-drill,” ____ the teacher.
7. “Mom, please take us to the mall,” ____ the children.
8. “I want my money back,” ____ the customer.
9. “Don’t make a sound or they will hear us,” ___ Barry.
10. “If you do not behave yourself, I will order you off,” ____ the referee.

8. Colours!

Crimson/ivory/cerulean/russet/golden/chestnut/smoky/evergreen/
Ivory/forest green

1. The gardener sprayed the ____ roses.

2. The ___ leaves withered and died.
3. The ____ horse jumped over the fence.
4. The elephant has ____ tusks.
 5. The ____ daffodils waved in the evening breeze.
6. The beetle crawled under a mossy, ____ rock.
7. The swamp was covered with clumps of ____ moss.
8. The _____ firs covered the mountainside.
9. The lark sang in the clear ___ sky.
10. A ___ mist hung over the valley.

9. The Sky – creatively complete the different description of the sky.

1. The gray-black sky was a (noun) of slumbering storm.

2. The sky was a (noun) of stars.
3. The sky was a (noun) of spotless blue; every rift and scar of the distant hills
was retouched with a firmer pencil, and all the outlines, blurred away by the
haze of the previous few days, were restored with wonderful distinctness.
4. Where the sun went down, the sky was a (noun) of rose red and golden green,
studded with little long islands of (adj) clouds, and on the edge of this sea the
evening star twinkled like a tiny, (adj) boat, dancing, a blaze of light, upon the
waves.
5. The desert mounds were touched with silver, and the sky was a (collective
noun) of diamonds.
6. The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon
(personification).
7. The sky was a (adj) azure that tranced the hills and the harbour with its
brilliance, silence and magic.
8. The cloudless sky was a brilliant violet, and the sun was rising like a (noun)
of molten gold.
9. The sky was one unbroken (noun) of gray, casting a gloom upon the restless
sea, dulling her sapphire splendour.
10. The sky became a (adj-personification) indigo, and flakes of (adj-
alliteration) snow began to drive out of the east.

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