Tag: fluency

  • Teenager SENTENCES?

    No, it doesn’t look like this… A teenager sentence is simply a medium length sentence, 13 to 19 words long. They often help connect long and short sentences and can be key in creating flow in your writing. That means that in terms of sentence lengths, A. A SHORT sentence would be 1-12 words B.…

  • Poetry week #003: How does that SOUND to you?

              Important tools in the toolkit of any poet are devices involving SOUND. There are many to choose from, but let’s focus on a few today. I’ll get some quick definitions out of the way, then demonstrate what I mean by them with a poem. Alliteration–repeating of beginning sounds: “buckets of baseballs; killer choir; ten…