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Make as many words as you can using the letters of one nine-letter word. Can you beat our score?
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Art Appreciation
By
Benjamin Robert Haydon
Some years before the Elgin marbles were put on display in the British Museum, rising artist Benjamin Haydon got a sneak preview.
In 1808, young Benjamin Haydon was an up-and-coming painter with a passion for lifelike figures. He had spent long hours sprawled on the floor painstakingly copying anatomical drawings instead of courting well-to-do patrons, and his father had declared him mad. Haydon called himself only exasperated: his attempts to paint Roman hero Dentatus were going badly.
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Make each group of words into a lively scene.
This is adapted from an idea in Think and Speak (1929).
It is an exercise not just in composition or description but also
in visualisation.
Choose a phrase below and expand it into a lively
scene of at least one sentence. Including people or animals is
a good way to impart interest and movement.
1 Van in street.
2 Bird feeder.
3 Kettle.
Try to make sure your scene helps the reader answer six
questions: What? Who? Where? When (e.g. in the day, or in history)?
How? Why? But remember: Show, don’t tell!
See Rudyard Kipling’s poem Six Honest Serving-Men.
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Reconstruct the whole of this dialogue using only the replies.
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... I heard John Wesley sing. A visitor on the quayside on Sunday May 30th, 1742, would have stumbled into a crowd agape and a determined clergyman singing psalms.
In 1742, John Wesley extended his northern preaching tour to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a large, cramped city by the North Sea, founded on coal mining and the coal-trade of England’s east coast. Many areas were grindingly poor, and over time ignorance and want had so tightened their grip that violence and addiction kept areas such as Sandgate, down on the Quayside, utterly wretched. Naturally, it was to Sandgate that Wesley at once demanded to go.
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A traditional Northumberland folksong.
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