- Write about a homeless person’s first night on the streets, from late afternoon/evening to the next morning. Include a back story, as to how and why they ended up on the streets, please make it interesting. To get a better grade, include some of the following: The senses (what they can hear, see, smell, etc.) Simple, compound and complex sentences, adjectives, similes, metaphors, punctuation, emotive language, rhetorical questions, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, and oxymoron’s.