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Descriptive Sentence Crafting Toolkit
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Descriptive Sentence Crafting Toolkit
Read each prompt carefully. Choose the strongest options where asked, then experiment with precise detail, similes and varied sentence openings in your own writing.
Spotting descriptive choices
1.Which sentence gives the clearest, most vivid picture through its choice of adjectives?
- A bird crossed the garden.
- A glossy blackbird swooped over the frost-covered garden.
- A bird quickly crossed the large garden.
2.Read this sentence: “Beyond the hedgerow, the river curled like a silver ribbon through the fields.” Write the simile.
3.Select every sentence that begins in a way that varies the usual subject-first opening.
- At the end of the lane, a lantern flickered.
- The lantern flickered at the end of the lane.
- Flickering in the mist, the lantern guided us onward.
- A lantern stood at the end of the lane.
4.Complete the sentence with an original simile: “The hallway was as quiet as …”
Crafting stronger sentences
5.Rewrite this sentence with precise adjectives to make the setting more vivid: “The cyclist entered the tunnel.”
6.Rewrite this sentence with a different opening: “The fox crept across the field beneath the moon.”
7.Write one sentence about a windswept beach. Include an adjective and a simile.
8.Write three sentences about one character. Begin one with an adverbial phrase, one with an -ing phrase and one with a connective.
Put the toolkit to work
9.Write a descriptive paragraph of four or five sentences about someone experiencing a powerful emotion. Use at least two adjectives, one simile and varied sentence openings. You may use these words: apprehensive, resolute, flushed, fragile, restless, luminous. Possible openings: “Across the room…”, “Clenching…”, “Even though…”, “For a moment…”
10.Choose one technique—precise adjectives, similes or varied sentence openings. Explain how it can help a reader picture a scene.
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