Words that Form Concrete Images
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Unit 3
What Does It Mean to Explore?
Reader's Notebook
Words that form concrete images
Concrete words appeal to sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell.
Abstract words are ideas that are hard to define such as love, happiness, anger, loneliness.
Concrete words are objects you can know with your senses such as dog, watermelon, and bicycle.
How many concrete words can you find in the poem below by Shel Silverstein?
Somebody has to go polish the stars,
They're looking a little bit dull.
Somebody has to go polish the stars,
For the eagles and starlings and gulls
Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn,
They say they want new ones we cannot afford.
So please get your rags
And your polishing jars,
Somebody has to go polish the stars.
They're looking a little bit dull.
Somebody has to go polish the stars,
For the eagles and starlings and gulls
Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn,
They say they want new ones we cannot afford.
So please get your rags
And your polishing jars,
Somebody has to go polish the stars.
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