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Descriptive Writing

Descriptive writing uses vivid vocabulary and figurative language to inform or define a subject for the reader. It paints a clear picture through techniques like similes, metaphors, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, and personification. Imagery helps readers visualize how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes, and feels. Descriptive writing attracts readers through interesting word choices that show rather than tell.

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Descriptive Writing

Descriptive writing uses vivid vocabulary and figurative language to inform or define a subject for the reader. It paints a clear picture through techniques like similes, metaphors, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, and personification. Imagery helps readers visualize how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes, and feels. Descriptive writing attracts readers through interesting word choices that show rather than tell.

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Descriptive writing is an effective written description is one that presents a clear picture to your reader.

A successful description uses vivid vocabulary, including colorful adjectives and figurative language. It is a type of writing where the purpose is to inform, explain, describe, or define the author's subject to the reader. Descriptive writing is writing with flair. It means using words so that they paint picture for the reader, but doing so in ways that often surprise the reader. An interesting description attracts the readers attention Description is a type of oral or written discourse that is used to explain, describe, give information or inform on what is being discussed. One important point to keep in mind for the author is to try to use words that clearly show what they are talking about rather than blatantly telling the reader what is being discussed. Since clarity requires strong organization, one of the most important mechanisms that can be used to improve our skills description. Imagery is used while writing a description. Imagery is the use of words to create images, or mental pictures. Imagery helps you picture how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes and feels. For example: The moon with its wisps of white light hung suspended in the frosty air over the still, quiet countryside. He could see in all directions, from the majestic outcrop of mountains to the vast ocean on the other. The reader can certainly SEE the moon and the countryside.

Tools for descriptive writing:


y y y y y y Similes Metaphors Adjectives Adverbs Interesting verbs Personification

Similes: Comparisons using the words like or as( simile)

1. The surface of the moon is like crumpled sandpaper. 2. I felt as nervous as a fish out of water.

Metaphors: Metaphor is the concept of understanding one thing in terms of another. e.g. 1. My tears were a river. 2. Her heart was on fire.

Adjectives: Adjectives are words which describe or modify nouns. e.g. 1. The tall thin man entered the spooky room with measured steps. 2. Inside the room, deep shadows crouched in wait for him.

Adverbs: Adverbs are words which describe or modify verbs. e.g. 1. The jets dived steeply out of the sky, tumbling rapidly as they maneuvered gracefully passed each other. Interesting verbs: It is worthwhile taking the time think about the verb for the situation you are trying to bring to life. Often a carefully chosen verb can transform a so-so passage into something quite different. He ran He jogged He fled He sprinted away. He stormed off.

Personification:

Personification is something in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person. e.g.

1. The run down house appeared depressed. 2. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

Examples:
Dark shapes glide through the night sky on silent wings, their sinister shadows outlined against the light of a full moon. Swooping down to the earth, they hover near houses and deserted buildings, breaking the peace of the night with their disturbing presence. Carriers of disease, drinkers of blood, companions of witches and demons, bats the very word brings a shiver of fear to most people. ~ Sylvia A. Johnson, Bats

Anybody could see how cold it got. The wind already had glass edges to it, stiffening muscles and practically cutting through the stitches of our clothes. When it blew, the chill stabbed our teeth like icicles, and our voices jiggled every time we talked. From Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida by Victor Martinez

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