DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

By: SEOW QIU HUI

DESCRIPTIVE

WRITING

At the end of this lesson,
you can…

●describe future plans or events.

●narrate factual and imagined events and

experiences.

●produce a plan or draft of two paragraphs or more

for a familiar topic and modify this appropriately in

response to feedback.

What is a descriptive essay?

Describing something

a. Event - sports day
b. Place - school
c. Experience - the best

birthday ever

d. Object - my favourite book
e. People - my father

make the reader feel like they are

experiencing the same thing as what you

have written

GOAL

Important elements required?

1. Describe feelings and emotions -

happy, sad, excited, etc.

Important elements required?

2. The 5 senses - sight, hearing,
smell, taste, touch

Important elements required?

3. Suitable word choice

= nervous

≠excited

What can you
see??

Objects? Feelings? Emotions?

Do you know? You can use literary devices to

polish your descriptive essay!

Example?

Examples

Metaphor

Simile

Hyperbole

Likens one thing to
another

-My child is the light
of my life;

-She’s a tornado
wanting to destroy
everything;

Relate two or more
things that have
similar traits

-As … as …

-like

Being extra

-I’ve seen you a
thousand years ago.

-You are the sweetest
guy i have ever met!

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