Showing vs telling

The original sentence uses the label 'haunted' to name an atmosphere directly rather than letting the reader notice it.

Showing replaces the label with concrete setting or sensory details that let the reader infer the same feeling without being told.

Only one option describes specific physical images, ivy, a broken window, a banging shutter, instead of restating the mood in words.

The option with concrete visual and sound detail lets the reader infer 'haunted' themselves, so it is the correct showing sentence.

The option calling the house 'creepy' and naming the feeling 'afraid' simply restates the telling, so it fails the task.

The option stating people avoid the house summarises a general fact rather than giving a concrete detail readers can notice.

Saying 'everyone agreed' the house was unsettling is still naming the atmosphere directly, not showing it through detail.

The ivy, broken windows, and banging shutter give physical, sensory clues the reader interprets, matching the showing technique.

This concrete, detail-based option is the only genuine example of showing rather than telling.

Telling states the emotion word directly, such as 'nervous', while showing gives a physical detail the reader must interpret.

Check which pair has a labelled-emotion sentence first and a concrete physical action second, matching telling to showing correctly.

'He was nervous' is the telling label, and 'his knuckles whitened' is the physical detail that lets readers infer nervousness.

This pairing correctly places the labelled emotion as telling and the concrete detail as showing.

One option puts the concrete gripping detail as 'telling' and the emotion word as 'showing', which reverses the definitions.

Another option lists a physical detail as telling and then explains the feeling behind it, which is not how showing works.

Another option uses two emotion words, 'uneasy' and 'tense', for both telling and supposed showing, so neither line actually shows.

Only the correct pairing has an emotion label first and a genuine sensory detail second, matching the taught structure.

This is the only pairing that correctly demonstrates telling followed by showing.