Descriptive Writing I

Descriptive Writing I

Describing People

Purpose of Descriptive Writing

• describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind.

• Capturing an event through descriptive writing involves paying close attention to the details by using all of your five senses.

• making written text more interesting and engaging to read.

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Where can you find descriptive writing?

• travel magazine

• advertisement

• newspaper

• novels

Characteristics of Descriptive Writing

• Uses IMAGERY that appeals to all of the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste when appropriate.

• Use of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE such as simile, metaphor, personification etc to SHOW the feelings the person, place or thing

• Use SPECIFIC adjectives and nouns and strong action verbs to give life to the picture you are painting in the reader's mind

• Has good ORGANISATION of details by chronological (time), spatial (location), and order of importance

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What is IMAGERY?

It uses words to evoke the sense of

• sight only

• sight and sounds only

• sight, sounds, touch only

• sight, sounds, touch, taste and smell

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Which of the following is figurative language?

• onomatopeia

• strong action verb

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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What kind of words gives life to the image in the reader's mind?

• preposition

• strong verbs

• specific nouns

• conjunction

• specific adjectives

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How can descriptive writing be organised?

• By Spatial (location)

• By Chronology (time)

• By Importance

• All of the above

• None of the above

Describing a Person

• How the person looks (Appearance)

• How the person moves and speaks (Mannerism)

• How the person feels and thinks (Emotions & Attitude)

• How he/she treats others (Effects on others)

• What his/her likes or dislikes are (Preferences)

• What your associations with him/her are like (Short Recount)