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LESSON 7 CREATING STRONG IMAGES

This lesson will teach you how to create powerful and emotionally engaging images in your writing by utilizing sensory details. Through brainstorming exercises and analysis of song lyrics, you will learn how to effectively incorporate sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch to bring your writing to life.

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LESSON 7 CREATING STRONG IMAGES

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  1. LESSON 7 • CREATING STRONG IMAGES

  2. FREE WRITE • Remember…. • Don’t worry! • Keep your pen and pencil moving for the whole five minutes.

  3. BRAINSTORM • In your journal, list as many details about your current surroundings as you can in 30seconds. • Try to move past the obvious things you see and find tiny details that someone else might not notice. • Ready… set… GO!

  4. BRAINSTORM • For 30 seconds, close your eyes and listen. Pay attention to every little sound. • Open your eyes and list as many sounds as you can in 30 seconds. • Repeat with smell, taste,and touch.

  5. Imagery Activity • Sensory details are the individual sights, sounds, tastes, aromas, and touch sensations that allow us to take in our surroundings. • Imagesare mental pictures. • Sensory details are the most powerful tool to create the images that move our emotions.

  6. Anger Joy Sadness Fear Calm • Pick one of the words above and think of a situation when you’ve felt that emotion.

  7. Listen “Coat of Many Colors” • What images does Dolly Parton • useto show instead of tell?

  8. What kind of imagesdo you see when you hear these lyrics? • Sitting on the porch • Listening to the breeze • Watching the street scorch • Feel so at ease • What senses does the writer involve? • What kind of emotion does the image create?

  9. What is different about the images in this verse? • Sitting on the porch • On a cold and dreary day • Listening to the storm • That just won’t go away • How does the lyric relate differently to your senses than the first verse? • How is the emotion different from the first verse? • What other sense could you use to build on the images in these two verses?

  10. HOMEWORK • Use the sensory details on your Images From Memory Worksheet to write a paragraph, poem or song in your journal retelling the memory. • Use as many details from your lists as you can, and use at least one detail from each of the five senses. Underline each sensory detail.

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