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• Write Your Recipe For A Good Mood
  • All you need to know about this activity
  • Getting started
  • Step 1: Your ingredients
  • Step 2: Using mind maps
  • Step 3: Describe your ingredients
  • Step 4: Adding measurements
  • Step 5: Adding similes
  • Step 6: Method of preparation
  • Write your method of preparation:
  • Step 7: Your serving suggestion
  • Step 7: Your title
  • Step 8: Upload your work
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Step 5: Adding similes

As this recipe is about feelings you may like to make it as richly descriptive as possible. Similes are a particularly good way of adding depth to a description. A simile compares one thing to another thing, with the aim of making the description richer. It uses the word ‘like’ or ‘as’ in the sentence.

 

For example:

A summer’s evening as soft as velvet

Spring blossom falling like snow

You can use similes to make your recipe more interesting and imaginative.

 

• Choose one of your ingredients with its description

 

For example:

A tranquil summer

 

• Think about what you could compare quiet to. What things are quiet? Jot down ideas on your mind map

 

For example:

tranquil as…. wind in the trees, a mouse, an owl in flight.

 

• Now add the simile to your description. You'll see that rather than repeat the description of 'quiet' twice, we've chosen different words to mean the same thing

 

For example:

A sprinkle of quiet summer, tranquil as an owl in flight.

 

Tip:

We advise only doing this for one or two ingredients otherwise the recipe becomes overcrowded.