Humans often communicate through tone. Here is a list of various emotions a human being can have. With a partner, read over the list and discuss how a person sounds when feeling this emotion. Additionally, what ACTIONS or body gestures does the person make when feeling this emotion.
For example: How does a person sound fearful? What happens to a person's voice when he/she is afraid? Also: what does a person DO physically when he/she is afraid? What facial expressions or gestures does the person use to convey this emotion?
This is what we mean when we say: show, don't tell in your writing.
For example: How does a person sound fearful? What happens to a person's voice when he/she is afraid? Also: what does a person DO physically when he/she is afraid? What facial expressions or gestures does the person use to convey this emotion?
- Fear → feeling afraid. Other words are terror (strong fear), shock, phobia
- Anger → feeling angry. A stronger word is rage.
- Sadness → feeling sad. Other words are sorrow, grief (a stronger feeling, for example when someone has died) or depression (feeling sad for a long time). Some people think depression is a different emotion.
- Joy → feeling happy. Other words are happiness, gladness.
- Disgust → feeling something is wrong or dirty
- Trust → a positive emotion; admiration is stronger; acceptance is weaker
- Anticipation → in the sense of looking forward positively to something which is going to happen. Expectation is more neutral.
- Surprise → how one feels when something unexpected happens
- Calmness (not feeling excited; opposite of anger)
- Friendship (Love), opposite enmity (feeling hate)
- confident (having no fear)
- Shame, opposite shamelessness (shame: how one feels about one's past bad actions or thoughts; shamelessness: one does not feel shame, but others think one should.)
- Kindness (benevolence), opposite unkindness (kindness: when people are good to other people)
- Pity (when people feel sorry for other people)
- Indignation (feeling angry because something is not fair, such as undeserved good fortune)
- Envy, jealous (pain when people have something that one wishes for oneself)
- wonder - surprise
- amusement - opposite emotion: weariness
- courage - opposite emotion: timidity or cowardice
- pity - opposite emotion: cruelty
- pride - opposite emotion: modesty- shame
- closeness - opposite emotion: detachment
- complaint/pain
- patience
- relaxed - opposite emotion: stressed
This is what we mean when we say: show, don't tell in your writing.
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