1. Painting with Participles

2. The following pictures were shown to high school students, and they wrote the accompanying descriptions using participles.

3. Flying through the air on the wings of a dream, the Olympic long jumper thrust the weight of his whole body forward.

4. Melody froze, dripping with sweat, hoping with all her might that they wouldn’t hear the noise.

5. The clown, appearing bright and cheerful, smiled and did his act with unusual certainty for someone who had just killed a man.

6. Your Turn!!! Look at the following pictures, and write one sentence in which you use at least one participle/phrase. Use the space provided in “The Writer As an Artist” notes. Underline the participle.