This article was about diving. I picked it because we are reading The Old Man and the Sea. So I made the connection between the diving article and the fishing story. This was a good example of VET.

My vivid was:

I was startled when a school of tiny blue fish exploded into a burst of color in the beam of my flashlight.

My emotive:

The hatches are narrow, but we dived slowly into the black, murky holds, and I was startled when a school of tiny blue fish exploded into a burst of color in the beam of my flashlight.

My tangible:

The dancing shafts of sunlight shooting straight down through the perfectly clear water to the bottom were so beautiful that my throat tightened.

This article was called Blue heaven for Big Fish