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DESCRIPTIVE WRITING Slide2
To write a descriptive essay, you’ll need to describe a person, object, or event so vividly that the reader feels like he/she could reach out and touch it.Slide3
What do you smell? What do you taste? What do you see? What do you hear? What might you touch or feel?
How to Write Vivid
DescriptionsSlide4
Concrete Language
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Abstract Language
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makes the story or image seem clearer and more real to us.
makes the story or image difficult to visualize.
gives us information that we can easily grasp and perhaps empathize with.leaves your reader feeling empty, disconnected, and possibly confused.
Using Concrete DetailsSlide5
Abstract: It was a nice day. Concrete: The sun was shining and a slight breeze blew across my face. Abstract: I liked writing poems, not essays. Concrete: I liked writing short, rhythmic poems and hated rambling on about my thoughts in those four-page essays.
Abstract: Mr. Smith was a great teacher.
Concrete: Mr. Smith really knew how to help us turn our thoughts into good stories and essays.
EXAMPLES!Slide6
As you get started on your descriptive essay, it's important for you to identify exactly what you want to describe. Often, a descriptive essay will focus on portraying one of the following:a persona placea memory
an experience
an object
What do you want to describe?Slide7
The most basic and important rule of descriptive writing:
SHOW
, don’t
TELLSlide8
I grew tired after dinner.As I leaned back and rested my head against the top of the chair, my eyelids began to feel heavy, and the edges of the empty plate in front of me blurred with the white tablecloth.Slide9
As you write your descriptive essay, the best way to create a vivid experience for your readers is to focus on the five senses.sightsoundsmell
touch
taste
VIVID DESCRIPTIONSSlide10
The next time you get a chance, pick up an apple. Feel the weight of it in your hand. Examine it for blemishes. What caused that little black spot? Did the apple tenaciously hang onto the wind-whipped tree branch as a storm dashed it into a neighboring twig? Did a peckish bird sample the apple for ripeness? Look at the apple again and feel it as it warms in your hand. Anticipate the burst of flavor as your teeth crunch through the rich redness of its thin skin.
APPLE!Slide11
The above is a sample of descriptive writing and a hint of some of the ways you can take an ordinary object and change it into the extraordinary using words. Writing a descriptive essay is a chance to explore your own creativity as you use the senses to draw a picture in words.Could you feel the weight and temperature of the apple?Did you see the blemish and visualize the windstorm or the bird?Could you hear the crunch as you bit through the skin?
Could you taste the explosion of flavor?Slide12
When writing a descriptive essay, start building your description by brainstorming the facts:Red AppleBrown StemSmall black blemish near the topThin skin
Juicy
Crunchy
Round
Heavy and solidSlide13
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