There is a great element of play with this.
This uses the same process as cut-up poetry production – the cutting out of words/phrases and reassembling randomly – but there is an added element of control in the writing and mixing of concrete and abstract phrases.
So this is a step beyond the concrete/abstract noun spotting!
Self-explanatory in the following resource. As with other similar ideas on this site, this is one where students/writers need to get way beyond the literal and embrace the accident of meaning!
Creative Writing for Copycatters 