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did not always have rhyme, but it tended to have rhythm. |
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Sometimes you have to force rhyme. There is nothing wrong with this, poets do it all the time. Forcing rhyme means choosing words that almost rhyme, but not quite. |
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Building Images into Pictures |
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An alternative to building images into stories is to build them into pictures. You can create a whole scene or landscape and carry that in your head into the exam room. Instead of running through a story containing your images, scan from top left to bottom right of the picture, recalling each image and the idea it represents as you go. |
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Alternatively, you can build a dynamic picture. What is meant here is a picture of a scene where things are going on. It may be a battle scene and several characters and elements of the picture are playing different roles. Or it could be a street scene, where different people are rushing about performing their different roles: the postman delivering letters, the policeman directing traffic, the taxi driver picking up a fare, workmen working in a trench in the road and a doorman attending the doors of a hotel. |
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Remember the three main principles for image making: |
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You make images striking by exaggerating their qualities, as a cartoonist does. Paint them in brilliant cartoon-like colours: |
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if they are large make them larger |
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if they are small make them smaller |
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if they are fat make them fatter |
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if they are thin make them thinner |
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if they are sharp make them sharper |
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if they are angry make them angrier |
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if they are jolly make them jollier. |
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