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Vivid Verbs Many verbs are over-used and boring. Vivid verbs are descriptive verbs substituted for those boring verbs. Vivid Verbs Many verbs are over-used and boring. Vivid verbs are descriptive verbs substituted for those boring verbs. Boring Verbs Walk, Talk, Went, Said, Like, Run, Jump, Yell, ETC.. LINKING VERBS= Am, Is, Are, Were, Be, Being, Been, Has, Have, Had, Should, Could, Would, ETC., STEP 1: Make a list of verbs commonly associated w/ animals Hibernates Swoop Prey Perch Laps Graze Howell Charge Slinks Pounces Swarms Drift Roams Gallops Slithers Wags Spray Squirms Hover Shriek Circle Float Shriek Roosts Swarms Pounces Gallops Crawls STEP 2: Decide upon some aspect of the weather for the subject of your poem. Avalanche Flurries Tornado Storm Tsunami Hail Blizzard Frost Wind Rain Sun Snow Draught Flood Hurricane Haze Mist Fog STEP 3: Choose verbs from the list to start writing your poem. USE UNCOMMON VERBS STEP 4: Create 5 sentences about your subject using the senses. Write as if you really are that aspect of the weather. I smell like…(VERB).. * I look like… I taste like…(VERB)… * I sound like… I feel like…(VERB)… STEP 5 Fill your poem in w/ descriptive details (Adj. or Adv.) STEP 6 Last line of your poem should end w/ describing how your subject (weather) blends in w/ its surroundings. Example= absorb, evaporate, etc. STEP 7 Title what your poem is VERB POEM The tornado gallops over large and small houses Then hibernates in the high clouds. Smells like burning houses Tastes like death after the destruction It feels like sadness and warmth-the red hot debris. I see pain in others glowing eyes, for they have lost so many wonderful things. I the tornado have swirled back into the pale, dark sky VERB USAGE Directions: Read the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas. Ask the students to identify the verbs in the poem and to label