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Descriptive Writing

This document provides information about descriptive writing and includes examples. It discusses how descriptive writing allows readers to use their senses to visualize what is being described. It emphasizes using imagery, details, and setting a mood. The document also contrasts descriptive and expository paragraphs. It provides writing prompts asking students to describe a person who influenced them through describing a physical aspect, and to write a descriptive paragraph about the setting of a story.

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Descriptive Writing

This document provides information about descriptive writing and includes examples. It discusses how descriptive writing allows readers to use their senses to visualize what is being described. It emphasizes using imagery, details, and setting a mood. The document also contrasts descriptive and expository paragraphs. It provides writing prompts asking students to describe a person who influenced them through describing a physical aspect, and to write a descriptive paragraph about the setting of a story.

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Descriptive Writing

Descriptive lets the reader touch, taste, see, hear and smell what you are describing. Painting a picture with words The reader should be able to see what you are describing Always use present tense Use transition words Use complete sentences use imagery that enhances the mood Create an atmosphere the mood or feeling of the story

Sample Descriptive Paragraph: Her hands were magical. My most vivid memories are of her hands: long elegant fingers, with impeccable nails, a skein of fine, barely-seen veins, and wrinkled skin like light pine. Those hands were quick when she taught me, at six, simple tricks of juggling, learnt when she was a village girl in Southern Canton...But above all, without realizing it, her hands conveyed to me the quality of their love (Chow, 14). a. What is being described? b. Highlight the adjectives and adverbs used to describe the subject. c. What do we learn about the boys relationship with his grandma through the description f her hands?
Reminder: A Venn Diagram shows similarities and differences between two things.

Expository

Descriptive

Descriptive Paragraphs: no structure, has personal pronouns, no PQE, Limitless sentences Expository Paragraphs: structure, no personal pronouns, PQE, 11 sentences Similar: present tense, transitions, descriptive explanations

Practice Writing Task Think of a person who has had a strong influence on you (parent, guardian, relative, sibling, friend, coach, role model). Think of what impresses you the most about that person. Now, try to associate that with some physical part of the person (if theyre smart you might describe their face or head to connect to the brain, if theyre strong you made describe their hands or arms, if theyre kind you may describe their smile etc). Write a description of this physical aspect of the person but try to use the description to reveal something important about your relationship with them. Consolidation Writing Task Write a descriptive paragraph about he SETTING of ONE of the stories we have read in class. Think about where the story took place, what the atmosphere was, and what the story was about. Then write a short descriptive paragraph for someone who HAS NOT read the story. If you write it well, the listener should be able to close his or her eyes and get a really good mental picture of the setting.

Story: Main Setting: Atmosphere:


Use the brainstorming web above to plan out your writing. Once youve identified the main setting, close your eyes and picture it. Write down what you would see, hear, smell, taste or feel if you were there. Then use these ideas in your descriptive paragraph.

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