Sentence Portrait Instructions and Example

Sentence Portrait

Directions: Follow the directions for each number (finish the sentence or write what it asks). Be creative. Remember you are writing this from the perspective of the character that you chose. Try to step inside the character’s shoes in order to really portray what the character would write if he or she could.

1. I think sometimes…
2. write a sentence about yourself using a color.
3. write a sentence about a body part.
4. write a sentence using a simile (comparison with like/as).
5. write a sentence of exactly 25 words.
6. write a sentence of less than 8 words.
7. write a sentence naming a piece of clothing
8. describe one wish you have.
9. use an animal in a sentence
10. use three or more alliterative words in a sentence (word with the same consonant sound: Bob beat Bill)
11. write a sentence using two commas correctly.
12. use a smell and a sound in a sentence.
13. write an exclamatory sentence(!).
14. I remember…



EXAMPLE:

I think sometimes that I should be sleeping.
And if I slept I would dream of red.
My dream would unravel, red, in my pillow-ridden head.
I would dream a wish that was as sweet as life itself.
Life, being that which embraces us like sleep and at the same time startles us from our dreams with a jolt and a scream, wake!
You’ve been dreaming.
My sleep is like a favorite t-shirt.
A shirt I wish was made of dreams.
The dreams that grab you by the collar and pull you away from the sleeping dragon.
While waking and wooing you into sleeplessness, you recall the real rendition of your pristine and private parable.
As much as I have dreamed, I have lived a life beyond dreams, one, which torments me in my dreams.
The whispering memories close in and smell like silent fog wafting from brewing storms on silent seas.
How strange it is to dream!
I remember when I forget.