Descriptive Essay

first semester of school, we had to write essays over four different topics. These included informative, observation, reflection, and descriptive essays. I told them about my experiences while writing with these certain types of essays. This is what I said: The first essay we wrote was the descriptive writing style. I wrote an essay called, “Burger King’s Crusty Castle”. In this essay, I wrote about the filth inside of the restaurant. Throughout this essay I got better with describing every little

for me but writing a descriptive essay on second person’s pronoun was the worst night mare I ever had because, of my experience in high school. During my high school in English class, we were asked to write a descriptive essay about the tattoo we love and the reason for having such tattoo must be explained in a proper manner. My teacher provided us a guidelines to use to carry out that assignment, in a way it will pleases her by showing us how to construct a descriptive essay by making it your own

The surrounding area grew darker as I traversed farther into the forest. Erie howls echoed from my destination and they grew slowly closer as I continued on my well traversed route. The woods really were beautiful, with its thick canopy allowing a censored light through the branches. The sounds of nature all around, the rustling of branches and calls of birds. The flowing of a near stream, the crunch of leaves beneath my feet. After several more minutes of walking I arrived at a building to it 's

responsibility will lead to my success in and beyond school because it gives me the confidence to succeed, and will lead to a better life for my family and me. Now as to my approach for this paper I am writing this essay according to The Descriptive Essay (2011), "The descriptive essay is a genre of essay that asks the student to describe an object,

In the essay Ground Zero by Suzanne Berne writes about her very personal experience visiting Ground Zero the place where the twin towers stood prior to the tragedy of 9/11. She uses rhetorical devices throughout her essay to make the piece feel incredibly intimate and emotional to the reader. She specifically uses imagery, tone, simile, and metaphor to explain her experience to Ground Zero in a deeper and meaningful way to her readers. Berne uses rhetorical devices in her essay Ground Zero to let

Abstract The purpose was to determine what metacognition was and how it affects us. The two hypothesis of this paper were: uncertainty about academic performance is negatively related to the overall metacognitive awareness inventory (MAI) score and that the MAI factor Knowledge about cognition is more highly related to uncertainty about academic performance when compared to the MAI factor Regulation of cognition. Students in a first year undergraduate psychology class filled out surveys to determine

In Rosalind Hursthouse’s essay on Virtue Ethics, she aims to create a new type of ethics that is classified as aristotelian in nature. Hursthouse’s model is more agent-based rather than action-based, which implies that it is based on the individual’s characteristics rather than the type of action implemented. Although her discussion on virtue ethics is both intriguing and important, Hursthouse's model falls short of being a viable ethical theory for several reasons. Firstly, the idea of agent-based

rhetorical devices that Jane Addams mentions in her speech are hypophora, metaphor, conduplicatio, enumeratio, and personification. Each of these devices has a purpose in the passage, with the author combining all of the devices to strengthen her essay. The most frequent rhetorical device in the passage is hypophora, which is when the author asks and answers a question. The author first mentions hypophora at the beginning of the passage to ask what makes a great man. She later shifts toward an

Literary Techniques: Poetry Analysis 1 Diction and Imagery Literary Techniques • The meaning of a poem (i.e its focus, mood and the speaker’s attitude) is enhanced by four main types of literary techniques: • Diction • Imagery • Sound devices • Rhythm, Rhyme and Repetition Diction • Diction is the choice of words a poet uses to bring meaning across. In working through a poem, it is useful to question why a certain word is used, and what kind of effect is achieved with the choice and placement

The idea of achieving dreams or “our personal legends” can either help dreamers succeed or derail. The infamous novelist, Paulo Coelho, writes a fascinating story about a boy who follows his personal legend. Coelho’s purpose for composing this book is to teach people about following dreams. The author establishes a hopeful tone using the rhetorical devices imagery, personification, and emotional diction to intrigue and encourages readers. Santiago, a shepherd boy, changes his perspective during