Descriptive Language Flashcards
Hit by babies
All day, he had been grabbed and thumped by little cousins who thought he was a climbing gym.
I carried my brother on my back
I shifted my brother onto my back
I climbed the stairs
I trudged up the stairs
Fought for a meat
Fought over that one piece of meat as if they were in a boxing match
Take away the meat
Snatched away the meat from his paws
She draws in detail
She focused on drawing, stroke by stroke, delicately.
She left madly
She stormed off like a mad mull
I ate the pizza
I eagerly gobbled up the piping hot pizza
Walk downstairs
Scrambled, shuffled, staggered downstairs
Wind blew over her face & sun shines
The cool, soothing wind blew gently over her face /
Warm breeze brushed against her face /
The sunlight embraced her, wind comforting and patting her head
Grass were moving
Sounds of grass caressing each other peeked into my ears
She felt warmth
Sunshine flooded her soul
Blue sky
Crystal blue sky
There was no wind at all and the sky was a uniform pearly white
It was a quiet night
The night on the street was dark and so quiet that you could hear a pin drop
The room was dark. Only the lamp was shining.
Formless shadows swallowed the room while the dim, flickering light of her lamp struggled to fight through the dark maw.
Said sadly
Wailed
The word sounded hollow with disappointment
Children
A band of munchkins
She realized
The realization hit her
The anticipation was high
The anticipation among the crowd reached a fever pitch
He did not talk to me for weeks
Weeks with no word from him
He focused too much on
He was too absorbed in/ too busy dwelling on
Ignore fact
Turning a deaf ear to the news of …
October passed and November came
October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy droughts that bit at exposed hands and faces.
Plead
Shoot a pleading look towards his mom
