Digital Publishing & Diction

Week 9:

1. Create your own Storybird.  Include the link as a "comment" below on this blog post.  Your story must be grammatically correct with correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.  Additionally, your story must include at least three of the following: have a plot that makes sense; convey a mood, tone, or atmosphere in which pictures and text work together; include complex and interesting characterization; and have a discernible theme.
2. Write good, specific compliments on each of your classmate's Storybird stories.
3. Descriptive writing is often facilitated by strong word choices (your diction).  For each of the following words, find at least five more precise synonyms.  For the last two words*, please find *ten more precise synonyms:

• scared
• happy
• sad
• big
• small
• strong
• tired
• angry
• want
• fight
• pretty
• said*
• went*

4. Last, pick one of your lists of five and put the words in order from least extreme to most extreme (or vice versa) Example: Ugly: wretched-->gross-->hideous-->disgusting-->vile