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Descriptive Text Examples: Bringing Words To Life

The document discusses descriptive writing and provides examples. Descriptive writing uses vivid language to help readers visualize experiences through detailed descriptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures. Good descriptive writing creates clear pictures and sets moods in the reader's mind. The document provides examples of descriptive phrases and passages from literature and songs to illustrate vivid descriptions.

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Descriptive Text Examples: Bringing Words To Life

The document discusses descriptive writing and provides examples. Descriptive writing uses vivid language to help readers visualize experiences through detailed descriptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures. Good descriptive writing creates clear pictures and sets moods in the reader's mind. The document provides examples of descriptive phrases and passages from literature and songs to illustrate vivid descriptions.

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Descriptive Text Examples

In descriptive writing, the author does not tell the reader what was seen, felt, tested, smelled,
or heard. Rather, he describes something that he experienced and, through his choice of
words, makes it seem real. In other words, descriptive writing is vivid, colorful, and detailed.

Bringing Words to Life

Descriptive writing creates an impression in the reader’s mind of an event, a place, a person,
or thing. The writing will be such that it will set a mood or describe something in such detail
that if the reader saw it, they would recognize it. Descriptive writing will bring words to life
and makes the text interesting.

Some examples of descriptive text include:

 The sunset filled the entire sky with the deep color of rubies, setting the clouds ablaze.
 The waves crashed and danced along the shore, moving up and down in a graceful and
gentle rhythm like they were dancing.
 The painting was a field of flowers, with deep and rich blues and yellows atop vibrant green
stems that seemed to beckon you to reach right in and pick them.
 The old man was stooped and bent, his back making the shape of a C and his head bent so
far forward that his beard would nearly have touched his knobby knees had he been just a
bit taller.
 His deep and soulful blue eyes were like the color of the ocean on the clearest day you can
ever imagine.
 The soft fur of the dog felt like silk against my skin and her black coloring glistened as it
absorbed the sunlight, reflecting it back as a perfect, deep, dark mirror.

Descriptive Text in Literature

Because descriptive text is so powerful, many examples of it can be found in famous


literature and poetry. In this excerpt from Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, notice the
writer’s choice of adjectives, adverbs, and verbs.

“It was a cold grey day in late November. The weather had changed overnight, when a backing wind
brought a granite sky and a mizzling rain with it, and although it was now only a little after two
o'clock in the afternoon the pallor of a winter evening seemed to have closed upon the hills, cloaking
them in mist.”

You can see that the writer had to carefully choose his words so that the reader could almost
see and feel the weather that was occurring.

Descriptive Text in Songs

Descriptive text examples can also be found in many songs, since songs are meant to capture
your emotions and to invoke a feeling.
Notice the vivid description of smoke in this excerpt from Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in
the Iron Mills":

"The idiosyncrasy of this town is smoke. It rolls sullenly in slow folds from the great chimneys of the
iron-foundries, and settles down in black, slimy pools on the muddy streets. Smoke on the wharves,
smoke on the dingy boats, on the yellow river--clinging in a coating of greasy soot to the house-
front, the two faded poplars, the faces of the passers-by.”

So, now you have many different examples of descriptive text and you can try your own hand
at writing a sentence or paragraph that helps to paint a picture and evoke emotions.

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