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did not always have rhyme, but it tended to have rhythm.
Making Things Rhyme.
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.
Building Images into Pictures
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.
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.
Formulating the Images
Remember the three main principles for image making:
make them striking
make them concrete
make them dynamic.
Making Them Striking
You make images striking by exaggerating their qualities, as a cartoonist does. Paint them in brilliant cartoon-like colours:
if they are large make them larger
if they are small make them smaller
if they are fat make them fatter
if they are thin make them thinner
if they are sharp make them sharper
if they are angry make them angrier
if they are jolly make them jollier.

 
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