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Descriptive Writing
Painting Pictures with WordsKaren S Wright
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HOW DO YOU WRITE DESCRIPTIVELY?
•When writing a descriptive paper, use the five senses to appeal to your audience;•The five senses help to paint a picture with words..
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Appeal to our senses when describing chocolate
Example: Gooey, homemade cookies and cakes lusciously drip with chocolate heaven while filling the air with a rich cocoa aroma.
How does it smell?
How does it taste?
What are the textures?
What does it look like?
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Use Metaphors or Similes
Example: Spring is like the promise of a new opportunity, a new beginning, or hope.
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Descriptive Writing Emphasizes Ideas or Themes
Example: The depth of the flowing river that winds through the tiny village is like the depth of the human soul.
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Personification Use personification to give human characteristics to inanimate objects
Example: With majestic arms stretching toward the sky, the tree waited to embrace the setting sun.
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Use Adjectives and AdverbsVivid words will paint a vibrant picture.
Example: Angry crashing waves unrelentingly whip the humble, century-old lighthouse causing it to succumb with a mighty fall.
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Useful Basic Patterns for Descriptive Writing
1. Chronological/Sequential
2. Spatial3. Psychological
There are the three main patterns used for descriptive writing.
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Sequential/Chronological OrderThis kind of order arranges events in the
order that they happen in time.
•Wake up•Meet Friends•Attend school•Eat lunch•Study•Eat dinner•Go to work
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Spatial OrderThis kind paragraph discusses logical order just like this city’s logical order of buildings.
•Organizational order•Order of a room•Order of a town•Order of a city
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When using spatial order, use these words:
Up DownNext
Beside BehindUnder
South NorthEast
West AboveOver
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Psychological OrderThis kind of paragraph discusses the importance of events, objects, or things.
•Most important to least important•Least important to most important•Over-rated to under-rated•Under-rated to over-rated
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What is Descriptive
Writing?Descriptive writing carefully paints colorful pictures in meaningful ways to create images in the mind.