14 Aug EXERCISE 32 Cliché Paragraph Now it’s time to try writing

EXERCISE 32 Cliché Paragraph Now it’s time to try writing clichés—just this once. Write a paragraph of about 100words on any topic, using as many clichés as possible. Use at least one cliché persentence. Your objective is to make no original meaning whatsoever. Love andbusiness make good topics. When you concentrate the clichés in a paragraph, youbecome a comic writer.EXERCISE 33 Original Language Now that you know what a cliché is, and you’ve read some original writing, it’s time foryou to create original language. The following exercise is designed to help you developyour observational skills and produce original writing. Translating your observationsinto writing develops your sense of detail.Sit in a public place (bus, library, cof ee shop, a gym etc.) and write three shortparagraphs:Paragraph 1: describe the actions of a person or people in that placeParagraph 2: describe how the place looksParagraph 3: describe the sounds you hear in that placeNotice everything. Bring the place to life. Of course, do not use any clichés. Twoadditional restrictions: 1) do not use any forms of the verb to be (am, is, are, was, were,been, being, including contractions such as it’s for it is or I’m for I am), and 2) write onlyin the active voice (no passives). These restrictions make writing dif cult, but in theprocess you’ll discover the level of detail required for good writing.EXERCISE 34 Figurative Language ApproachesTo get a feel for these techniques of f gurative language, you need to practise them.This exercise requires you to write a total of 10 sentences containing all f ve types off gures of speech described above:• Write two sentences with metaphors not using like or as.• Write two sentences with similes.• Write two sentences with irony.• Write two sentences with overstatement.• Write two sentences with understatement. read file page 154-172