Here’s a taste of the kind of stuff you’ll work with.
- Imageability (Concreteness): Some sentences describe a scene that is easy to imagine.
- Emotional Intensity (Arousal): Some sentences describe more emotionally intense scenarios than others.
- Familiarity: Some phrases are used more frequently in everyday speech than others.
- Metaphoricity: Words are not always used literally.
For example, the following sentences are easy to imagine: The maple trees in front of the house were a dazzling array of red, gold, and yellow. The alarm rang very loudly and the father jumped out of bed. In comparison, the sentence below is more difficult to imagine:The thorough considerations led to a wise decision.
"i exercise everyday" vs "I just came back from gym"
“I started off my fitness journey doing very simple exercises — running for a few kilometres, pushups, pullups, crunches — the usual. Are you a fit and active person too?”
vs
“Are you a fit and active person”
For example, the following sentences describe an intense event: The tightrope walker slipped while practicing without a net. In contrast, the following sentence describes an event that is not intense:The committee's thorough decision was published in the newspaper.
For example, the following sentence uses large to describe a room: The host’s voice echoed in the large room. You may come across the phrase the large room more often than the phrase the capacious room.
For example, the following sentence is somewhat metaphorical: The website’s rules were tightened to reduce profanity. Notice that rules can’t be literally tightened or loosened. Instead, we mean that the rules were made stricter.