Meaning: Nuts dropped from a large, strong tree with many branches.
Choice of Words: Acorns are the nuts of an oak tree. Fell means dropped from a higher place to a lower place. Tall oak tree is a large, strong tree with many branches.
Alternative Expressions
Little brown acorns dropped from the giant oak tree.
Meaning: This sentence gives us a more detailed picture of the acorns falling from the oak tree, by describing the size and color of the acorns, and the size of the tree.
Choice of Words: This sentence adds more descriptive words to the original sentence. Little and brown describe the acorns, and giant describes the oak tree. These words help us to visualize the acorns and the tree.
With a gentle breeze, the acorns gently floated down from the towering oak tree.
Meaning: This sentence paints a more vivid picture of the acorns falling from the oak tree, by describing the way they move and the effect of the wind.
Choice of Words: This sentence uses more figurative language to describe the acorns falling. With a gentle breeze suggests that the wind is helping the acorns to fall, and gently floated down creates a picture of the acorns moving gracefully through the air. Towering is used to emphasize the height of the oak tree.