DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

WHAT IS DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY?

• A descriptive essay allow you to paint a picture for your reader in words. to learn more about the techniques and elements that can help you fill the picture with lots of great details.

Defining a Descriptive Essay

• When you hear the word 'describe', what does it mean to you? For most people, describing is a way of illustrating something with words. You can describe a feeling, a sound, or even an emotion. Descriptive essays are just the same: they help you illustrate something in a way that your reader can see, feel, or hear whatever it is you're talking about. A descriptive essay allows a reader to understand the essay's subject using illustrative language.

Using the Five Senses

• Descriptive essays are great because, in a sense, - pun intended - they can help us see places we might not be able to go ourselves, hear new things, taste different flavors, smell foreign smells, or touch different textures. Descriptive essays do this through the use of more concrete concepts, which most often include our five senses.

SHOWING VS. TELLING

• Even more, the description helps set a mood by using more vivid language to complement the sensory-based description. The author shows us, rather than tells us, what the afternoon on a beach is like. Rather than saying, 'I heard the waves as the tide came in,' the author says, 'As the waves leisurely collided with the shore, I could hear the delicate lapping of the water as it met the sand.' This extra detail really helps us visualize the scene that the author is trying to create.

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• Another useful technique for setting a mood with your descriptive writing is to use similes and metaphors. A simile is a phrase comparing two unlikely things using 'like' or 'as' in order to make a description more vivid.

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• A metaphor has the same function as a simile, but the comparison between objects is implicit, meaning there is no 'like' or 'as' used to signal the comparison. Here's an example of a metaphor from good old Shakespeare: 'All the world's a stage and the men and women merely players.' Rather than saying life is just like a play, he compares the world to where a play is acted out.

STEPS OF DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

• Step 1: Choose a topic
• Step 2: Create a statement
• Step 3: Get the senses right
• Step 4: Create an outline
• Step 5: Write the conclusion
• Step 6: Review your essay
• Step 7: Finish it up

VIDEOS ABOUT DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

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