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how english works: aCTIVITY Verbs and Vivid Verbs 2.5
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Learning Targets
• Analyze and explain in conversation and writing how vivid verbs produce effects on the reader.
• Evaluate and explain in conversation and writing how effectively the author uses vivid verbs to create
imagery.
• Express and justify opinions in conversation and writing by providing text evidence and using nuanced modal expressions and phrases.
• Use a variety of verb types, tenses, and aspects appropriate for the text type and discipline on familiar topics.
Vivid Verbs
Travels with Charley is a memoir written in the first-person point of view. The narrator is the author, telling about a trip to Yellowstone National Park with his dog. The narrator uses vivid verbs to help the reader visualize their experience.
A verb is the part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence. For example, They walked to school. Vivid verbs help to create a more precise image in the reader’s mind of the action occurring. How does the action from the sentence above change your mind when you replace the verb walked with one of these verbs? scrambled, skipped, marched, strode, sauntered
Language Resources: Verbs and Vivid Verbs
Skim through Travels with Charley, looking for sentences you like that use vivid verbs. Write three example phrases in the chart. Then write the effect of the vivid verb on your understanding and visualization.
Verb
Vivid Verb
Effect of Using Vivid Verb
He moved his body quickly.
He jerked his body.
a more precise picture of the dog moving its body in sudden sharp movements
The bear moved quickly.
The bear scuttled.
clearer to visualize the bear moving at a quick shuffling pace than just moving quickly
Example Phrase with Vivid Verb
Effect
scratched at the windows trying to get out at them
I can clearly visualize Charley scratching the windows as hard as he can to attack the bears.
Create a more precise image in the sentences below by replacing the verbs with vivid verbs. 1. The dog saw a squirrel and ran after it.
2. The chef made his specialty and everyone ate happily.
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