| Goal: | Descriptive writing vividly portrays a person, place, or thing in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s experience. | Characteristics: |
- The general characteristics of descriptive writing include:
- elaborate use of sensory language
- rich, vivid, and lively detail
- figurative language such as simile, hyperbole, metaphor, symbolism and personification
- showing, rather than telling through the use of active verbs and precise modifiers
| Uses: | Descriptive writing appears almost everywhere and is often included in other genre, such as in a descriptive introduction of a character in a narrative. | | Exercises: | - Observe, and then describe an event.
- Think of a person or object that stands out in your memory. Write a description of that subject.
- Find an example of descriptive writing; explain the elements that make this a good example.
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