Syntax: the arrangement or patterns of words within sentences.

 Diction: the words you choose to use.

 Figurative language:  metaphors, similes, allusions, and other devices  that   seem to suggest that one thing is like another.

 Images: word pictures.

 Imagery: related word pictures.
 

Task: In a piece no longer than 10 sentences, describe a scene in which your focus becomes one or two people amidst a larger group: mother and child on a crowded bus; a student in a crowded cafeteria; a grandmother at dinner with the rest of a large family. By the end of the piece, the reader should "see" more than the scene. There should be a strong emotional atmosphere or feeling generated by the style and content and the reader should have gained some knowledge of the writer’s emotional or intellectual response to what is being described.  Do NOT use simile!