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THE HOOK. Ideas for capturing your reader’s attention. 1. Begin with a simile or a metaphor. My life has been a carnival. My family is like an open book. 2. Begin with a question. Who is the greatest athlete of all time? Have you ever been alone and felt as though someone was watching you?
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THE HOOK Ideas for capturing your reader’s attention
1. Begin with a simile or a metaphor. • My life has been a carnival. My family is like an open book.
2. Begin with a question. • Who is the greatest athlete of all time? • Have you ever been alone and felt as though someone was watching you? • Have you ever dared anyone to eat a strange and unusual thing before?
3. Begin with a definition. • Amiable is the best way to describe my personality: I am friendly and caring. • Perfect is the best adjective to describe me: I am flawless in every aspect of my life.
4. Begin with a quotation. • “Learn to laugh” is something my kindergarten teacher told me after Ralph Thorsen spilled paint on my crisp white summer dress. • “No good deed goes unpunished,” is a phrase that comes to mind when I recall this event.
5. Begin with a comparison to a well-known person or celebrity. • People say that I am as photogenic as Tyra Banks. • Ok, so let me just tell you now that I am no Michael Jordan.
6. Begin with placing yourself in the future. • In the year 2020 I see myself as a supreme ballerina performing in Camelot at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. • I am going to be the coolest eighth grade student Conrady has ever seen, and if you don’t believe me, just wait.
7. Begin with a dilemma. • My family’s decision to move during my last year of high school was one of my most difficult times of my life. • I could hear the loud cracks in the distance and my cousin yelling, “get down, those aren’t fireworks, those are gunshots!”
8. Begin with a scene/scenario. • There’s a knocking on the door and as I look out the small window pane to see who is lurking on the other side I hear a woman’s voice screaming as if in pain.
9. Begin with the best advice you’ve ever received • My father always told me to never give up and I have always tried to live my life by that motto. • “Be all you can be” has been my inspiration from my grandfather who is a retired Marine Corps colonel and my mentor.
10. Begin with an anecdote • As my cousin and I pedaled our new bikes to the beach, 6 years old, suntanned and young, we met an old, shaggy-haired man weaving unsteadily on a battered old bike.
