This strategy, designed as a warm-up for imitation in Chapter 5, helps students feel the rhythm of sentences and paragraphs. Ask students, working in groups or individually, to fill in the parallel image blanks below. Following this experiment, discuss how meaning changes with rhythmic patterns.

1. Between what _______________ _______________ ______________ and what _______________ ___________________ _______________, between what _____________________ and what never __________________, between the _____________________ of ________________ and the _______________ of _________________ lies the _________________ of ________________.


2. Some days you _______________ _______________. Some days you_____________ _________________. Some days you ____________ ______________. Some days you _______________ _____________ __________________ ______________. Some days are made for ________.


3. If there are no _______________, if _______________ really don't exist, if _______________ are only a myth, then how do you explain the_______________ ? How do you explain the _______________ ? And most of all, how do you explain the _______________? Beyond _______________ lies the_______________.


4. When _____________________________________________, when_____________________________________________, and when________________________________________, only then will____________________________________.


5. This is a (man / woman) who _____________________________, a (man / woman) who ___________________________________, and a (man / woman) who__________________________________________. This is_____________________________.


6. This was a place where _____________________ ______________ _____________________, where ___________________________ ______________ _____________, and where______________________ _____________________________.