How can you create an effective word picture?

What will be an ideal response?

To create an effective word picture, begin by forming your own clear mental image of the person, place, object, or process before you try to describe it. See it with your "mind's eye." Ask yourself the following questions:

? What would a listener see if he or she were looking at it?
? What would listeners hear?
? If they could touch the object or do the process, how would it feel to them?
? If your listeners could smell or taste it, what would that be like?

To describe these sensations, choose the most specific and vivid words possible.Also, be sure to describe the emotions that a listener might feel if he or she were to experience the situation you relate.

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