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Adjectives

Welcome back to the "weekly" blog post folks.
Even though we're considered as Form 4 in secondary school (or if you're American, tenth-grade in high school), our English teacher, Pn Monica informed us to bring colour pencils.

We're supposed to draw monsters, our deepest, darkest, most terrifying monsters that scare us the most. Obviously, everyone started to get excited ? I don't exactly know what the moods of people was but it kind of sounded like it. To be honest with you, I had fun. We were supposed to draw something as stated the above, along the description that best suites it. Then we will get someone's else description and based on that, we will draw that character/monster. Mine was a guy standing in the corner, and as I wrote, "wannabe shadow Freddy Krueger".

Then Pn Monica collected all of it and passed it around. I got Cathy's description.

-small eyes, moustache, big nose, sometimes has glasses. Sounds easy right ?

Well you're wrong it was not easy at all. As a person who has no experience in drawing this was actually quite hard to accomplish.

When we all passed back the drawn monsters, almost everyone burst into laughter. Some, like Wei Min, took a sub-par drawn Frankenstein and turned it into a super model, while some took it and drew... weird things.

In the end, we all learnt an important lesson from this. Description of an object/character is quite important as it gives the reader an image, or helps to the reader to imagine what the author/writer is trying to present in a story. Adjectives are a staple part of writing to describe a thing or a person. Be it tall, short, large, small, an adjective can make a lot of difference and could spice up one's writing! As a wannabe author, this is quite helpful. We should have more fun metaphorical activities in class! This is a great way of teaching.

Have a nice double holiday folks, and I'll see you in the next post.


Cheers,
Chua.

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