The Restatement Game

Started by Kinghex, December 13, 2018, 02:28:43 PM

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Kinghex

The restatement game is sentence composition practice. A sentence is posted. Players reply to the sentence with three different restatements of it. The goal of this game is to play with vocabulary and structure for composition improvement.

An example of how the game is played:


Quote from: Somebody Jones The cat explored the garden.

  • A black cat crawled through garden flowers.
  • Mischievous Matt, Mrs. Cardinal's prized pet cat, pawed through my growing petunias.
  • A curious feline squeezed through the garden fence and abruptly charged through the plants.
Next sentence: The winter wind knocked over the mailbox.



Guidelines:

  • Starter sentences can be most anything. Sentences can be as flawed or flawless as a participant sees fit. However, be mindful of board rules.
  • The three reply sentences should share the subject, action, and tone of the original. The subject's title can change. But, the essence of that subject cannot change. For example, if a tiger is described, it cannot become a house cat. The action can change. Verbs may become synonyms or close equivalents. However, the effect should be the same. For example, punching through a wall cannot become hammering. Finally, tone cannot change. If the example sentence has an established tone, the tone must remain the same. For example, "She was sad about her divorce." cannot become "She happily tossed money around the room and burned a photo of her loser husband." These conditions limit revisions to composition practice.


 
Don't know how to reply? Here's some ideas.
Ideas


  • Add adjectives
  • Remove adjectives
  • Add adverbs
  • Remove adverbs
  • Change pronouns to nouns
  • Change nouns to pronouns
  • Show instead of tell
  • Tell instead of show
  • Use word synonyms
  • Change passive voice to active voice
  • Change active voice to passive voice
  • Shorten every word
  • Lengthen every word
  • Rearrange the order of detail
  • Remove unnecessary words
  • Add a simile
  • Add a metaphor

Here's reply formatting:

[list=decimal]
[li] Sentence one. [/li]
[li] Sentence two. [/li]
[li] Sentence three [/li]
[/list]
Next sentence:[i] New sentence. [/i]




And here's the first sentence!
 
The match was swift in lighting the candle.


Mirrah

    Quote from: Kinghex on December 13, 2018, 02:28:43 PM
    The match was swift in lighting the candle.

    [list=decimal]
    • The lit match was quick to set a candle wick aflame.
    • Fast as lightning, the match set the candle alight.
    • How rapid did the match's voyage prove to be, for it exceeded expectations as the wick gladly responded to its timely visit with silent, yet warmest welcome.
    Next sentence: The eagle swooped down to catch a fish.
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