- ____ Strong Adjective – use the thesaurus to find at least one dazzling and appropriate adjective for every section (or page) of your essay
- ____Strong Adverb – use the thesaurus to find at least one beguiling and appropriate adjective for every section (or page)Â of your essay
- ____Hunt for “There was” and “There were” and substitute with strong verbs like “towered” or “trembled”. Â
“There was a mountain in the distance” could become, “A mountain towered in the distance.”
“There was an ugly house,” could become, “An ugly house squatted in the yard.”
- ____Join sentences sometimes:  Use words like  which, who, where, although, so, or because to JOIN some sentences and make your language structure more varied and pleasurable to read.Â
- ____Write one VSS (very short sentence) – this technique allows for drama! Â
“Jay wanted to buy his dream bike. He didn’t.”  or
“Cara pedaled her puny bike all the way to the top of the monstrous mountain. Â She found nothing.”
- ____ Stop for Red Lights! Â You can use red light words, but you need to stop and google first. These words signal your chance to do a little better!!!
- Red light words : go, went, come, came, say, said, get, got, see, or saw, good, bad, nice, mean, pretty, ugly, big, or a lot.Â
These red light words are triggers for you to go careen/ race/ hurry/ rush straight to the thesaurus and find a stronger flashier or more suitable word. “The ugly house squatted in front of us.” Could become: “The menacing house squatted in the yard.” (Oh how far you’ve come from that first sentence: “There was an ugly house”
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