Poetry - Emotive language

Choose an emotive alternative for: HAPPY

• Calm

• Sad

• Sanguine

• Over the moon

Choose an emotive alternative for: ROTTEN

• Rancid

• Fresh

• Off

• Weak at the knees

Pick the most emotive way of expressing this idea...

• The second man was badly injured.

• The victim was left with horrific injuries.

• A person was hurt at the scene.

• An individual was harmed in the incident.

Pick the most emotive way of expressing the idea:

• Cars drive on the road.

• The automobile drove along a sealed road.

• Gas-guzzling mutants stalk their pitch domain.

• You see all kinds of cars driving on the highway.

Choose an emotive alternative for: SAD

• Casually

• Melancholy

• Weary

• Thoughtful

Choose an emotive alternative for: CARELESS

• Selectively

• Careful

• Glum

• Haphazardly

Pick the most emotive way of expressing this idea:

• She flippantly flicked her hair in a glib gesture of derision.

• She put her hair behind her ear.

• The girl didn't think very much of anyone but herself.

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• She didn't care what anyone said

Pick the most emotive way of expressing this idea:

• It got dark.

• Murky darkness enfolded us in a cloak of ink.

• The sun set and the rain clouds made it feel sort of grey and weird.

• The darkness descended around us.

Choose an emotive alternative for: EMBARRASSED

• Mundane

• Shy

• Humiliated

• Extroverted

Choose an emotive alternative for: Alone

• Fear holds my feet in place. Mired in the thick mud of trepidation.

• Laughter fills my lungs; what joy the lack of breath reveals!

• Crying a river, overflowing with tenderness.

• I am a lighthouse, a beacon to solitude.