The document provides tips for adding vividness and sensory details to writing by incorporating the five senses through examples, using motion verbs and collocations to describe actions, employing figurative language like metaphors and similes, and utilizing time words and phrases to establish sequence and pace.

1. How to Add Vividness to Your Text
Aglaia Leptokaridou

2. ● Incorporate the five senses.
Examples:
Sight (visual image): The blonde girl had tattoos on nearly every surface of her skin.
Smell (olfactory image): The biscuits smelled like cinnamon.
Hearing (auditory image): She slammed the door shut.
Touch (tactile image): He had skin as soft as velvet.
Taste (gustatory image): The coffee was bitter.
Combination of senses (synesthesia): He had a voice as smooth as velvet (sound and touch).

3. ● Use motion verbs.
Examples:
I ran into Sara yesterday.
Caroline moved away.
She went on to become famous.

4. ● Use collocations.
Examples:
She would describe her experiments in great detail.
Heavy rain is a common phenomenon in England.
Sara has a fascinating theory.

5. ● Incorporate figurative language (metaphors, similes, personifications):
Examples:
Her anger was a storm. (Metaphor.)
She moved like a dancer. (Simile)
The weather was joyous on that day. (Personification.)

6. ● Use time words and phrases
e.g. suddenly, at first, just before [...], when…
Examples: Do you see the difference between the following sentences? Which sentence is more effective
in evoking emotion and describing a scene/scenario?
● The ghost appeared. Suddenly, the ghost appeared.
● She missed the bus. Just a second before she could step inside the bus, the driver drove
away.
● She was anxious. At first, she was anxious.