description

Description

Sensory information provided the reader with strong use of adjectives and adverbs or simple descriptions of events, people, places, times

WHAT DOES DESCRIPTION WRITING DO FOR READER?

• Sometimes tells a story--like narration
• Puts reader in shoes of someone/something else; what a person/thing experiences
• Puts reader in place or time, past or present

GOOD RULES OF THUMB FOR DESCRIPTION

• Unless own entire piece, best left for part of an introduction
• Objective description: just the facts, like a reporter
• Subjective description: from person's direct point of view

SUGGESTIONS FOR DESCRIPTION

Focus around dominant impression (the implicit intention of the writing)

Be selective about what details to leave in (or out)

SUGGESTIONS FOR DESCRIPTION

Details can be arranged like evidence: spatially, chronologically, emphatically

Use vivid sensory language and variation of sentences

Literary Devices

Simile: phrase that says that one thing is like another
Metaphor: figurative language that is more abstract and suggestive; poetic
Personification: the literal embodiment of another person, creature or thing

QUESTIONS?