Spoken Word Poetry continues… Continue editing and revising your expanded lists. Highlight your verbs, nouns, and adjectives. Bold and Underline your unexpected images and exaggerations. Use www.dictionary.com and click on “thesaurus” to find better verbs. Replace being verbs (am, is, are, was, were) with other verbs. Use the thesaurus and look up “be” and “exist”. Try to make your sentences use ACTIVE instead of passive voice. That means the subject does the action. Edit what you have already expanded. After that, continue expanding your list and editing those sections as you expand. Tomorrow, we will be writing your final drafts so that we can begin recording on Monday.