Decriptive Essay Vocabulary

What is a descriptive essay

• asks the student to describe something—object, person, place, experience, emotion, situation

• includes the five senses

• encourages student to write about a personal experience

• All of the above

This is the first copy of a written essay

• thesis sentence

• conclusion

• final draft

• rough draft

The thesis sentence can also be called

• the main idea

• the conclusion

• the body

• introduction

Objective details

• details influenced by one's emotions

• a direct quote

• a question added to the text

• details not influenced by one's emotions

What is punctuation?

• Words capitalized in writing

• the conclusion of an essay

• the marks, such as period, comma, and parentheses, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

• none of the above

Subjective details

• includes what the writer thinks or believes

• does not include the writer's thoughts

• is the subject of your paper

• none of the above

Organization

• the internal structure of the piece including topic, introduction, body and conclusion

• the details you add to your writing

• the thesis sentence

• the main idea

Purpose

• the main idea

• an author's reason for writing- to persuade, entertain, or inform

• the emotions of the writer

• the quotes in a text

The copy of your paper that is ready to be published

• rough draft

• thesis sentence

• a summary

• final draft

When an author writes to entertain, this is referred as

• organization

• purpose

• thesis sentence

• author's purpose