Module 2 Discussion Topic

Our instructions:

Sentence mimics: Choose five sentences from this week's essays in the Lopate book. After each sentence, write your own sentence that uses the same syntax and punctuation.
Here's an example:
How I detest the husbands of nursemaids! (Sei Shonagon, p. 26)
Mimic: How I love the smell of freshly baked bread!
Note that the original and the mimic both use the same punctuation and grammatical form ("How I …"). But their meanings are entirely different.
When you have written your sentence mimics, post them for your teammates to read. Comment on your team members' sentences.

 My practice (to be added to as I go along; in a few days I will pronounce it "done", unless this gets to become a new hobby of mine.  :-)  )

This is like MadLibs.

from Hateful Things:

• A flight of crows circle about with loud caws.
• A herd of cows wander around with fretful moos.

• One is just about to be told some interesting piece of news when a baby starts crying.
• One is just about to absorb several difficult bits of information when a phone starts ringing.

• Very hateful is a mouse that scurries all over the place.
• Extremely amusing is a cat that runs all around the house.

from In Bed:

• Migraine is something more than the fancy of a neurotic imagination.
• Happiness is considerably more than the fulfillment of a long-held desire.

• Once an attack is under way, however, no drug touches it.
• After an argument has begun, unfortunately, no reasoning prevents it.