Facts, observations and incidents used to develop a topic, shaping and seasoning voice.
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Consider This!
Whenever he was so fortunate as to have near him a hare that had been kept too long, or a meat pie made with rancid butter, he gorged himself with such violence that his veins swelled, and the moisture broke out on his forehead.
-Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”
Discuss:
1) What effect does the detail (the spoiled hare, the rancid butter, the swollen veins, the sweaty forehead) have on the reader?
2) How would the meaning of the sentence be changed by ending it after himself?
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Apply
Write a sentence describing someone with disgusting eating habits. It must be one, correct sentence; and it must contain at least three vivid details.
His motives were typically immured with covetous avarice, and his gluttonous impropriety was evidenced with spewed spittle, grease-laden fingers and a guttural cacophony of ravenous groans.