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Without descriptive adjectives, the reader won’t be able to see or imagine how the characters look like, how the setting is described and you won’t be able to know the characters emotion. “Six feet tall, longish brown hair and blue eyes.” As you can see, this helps the readers visualize how that character looks like so without descriptive adjectives, you wouldn’t be able to imagine how the character looks. “He was in his late fifties and was pretty big, and he had a bit of a beer stomach.” From this quote you can see this shows he’s old and don’t take care of himself as much, so you can see how the character is like and act with descriptive adjective. “At the top of the stairs was this plain old bathroom with a shower curtain that had all kinds of fish designs on it… The ceiling slanted on the far side, and there was only one window.”After looking at this quote, you can tell that without descriptive adjectives you won’t be able to visualize the setting which can connect to how the characters feel in a way. To break this all down, without descriptive adjectives it would leave us clueless and confused because we won’t know anything about the characters(looks,emotions) and setting which would make the story perplexing and complicated.

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” -Stephen King. Descriptive language helps to create a picture in the reader’s mind. Authors can create descriptive language through narration or dialogue. In the novel The Contender, by Robert Lipsyte, the author uses descriptive language and dialogue to develop the characters and the setting.

of descriptive writing with a forbidding or positive tone, use of literary devices and strong

Simile (balcony scene): O, speak again, bright angle! For thou art As glorious to this night, being o’er my head, As a winged messenger of heaven (Rom. 2. 2. 26-28). Juliet is compared to a winged messenger of heaven. Given that the comparison uses the word "as," this comparison is a simile.

Hunger. Emptiness. Death. In the novel Night by Elie wiesel speaks about hunger as something all jews were used to, empty and deprived of nutrition they were already dead. Hunger consumes all hope and love that people have with one another.

The first rhetorical strategy I used in my descriptive paragraphs was word choice. I bring this up first because without it, the reader has a vague perception of the story. Although if used accordingly, it revives the story and the reader can fully grasp what you want them to see. The best use of this in my positive paragraph was “spacious”. I wanted the reader to visualize a vast and roomy drive thru while reading my paragraph. Although I could’ve used other words like “large”, or “big” they wouldn’t have had the same effect because a place can be big and still be constricting. As for my negative paragraph my best word choice would have to be “snatched”. I used snatched in this context because I believe it gave readers the most negative visual about how the money is taken from the customer’s hand. Other words that I could have used like “taken” or “grab” would have failed to leave the same impression of negativity in the reader. Sentence structure is another rhetorical strategy that also leaves an impression on the reader.

Descriptive language emphasize pessimistic atmosphere from the creation. It shows the difference between the human and the

Subjective seeks a strong emotional response from the reader. The amount of detail is varied by how much the audience knows of the subject at hand. The tone is a key concept as well as the language used; this is what determines whether it is objective or subjective. The main elements in descriptive text are: focusing

“The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.” Descriptive adjectives help a reader picture the setting in their mind and also understand the mood in the story. In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen, the authors use descriptive adjectives to develop the setting and mood.

The fifthteenth paragraph takes the reader from personal reflection to reconsideration, to general conclusion. Before the show, Dillard “thought she know my [her] way around beauty…” but then reconsiders that on that day at the airport, she had only “begun learning about beauty.” By the end, she concludes that there is “nothing...more gladdening that knowing we must...move back the boundaries of the humanly possible…” She includes these transforming detail in order to inform her audience of the journey of learning that she traveled upon. This also works to strengthen her ethos, because to her audience, she becomes a well-rounded person that is willing to accept change for the better.

Each style has a distinctive purpose: some tell a story, some describes and others may persuade a viewpoint. I learned that descriptive essays have text which generally describes something in great detail. Whatever is being defined requires a broad research of trustworthy sources. The thing I liked most was researching and finding out new information on my topic. However, my greatest trouble was involving the reader’s emotion into my essays or writings. Nonetheless I realize that by involving the reader's emotions my writing gives a more vivid detail that makes the reader feel like he or she is actually there.

Name’s Tom Foolery. I’m a clown. Or what the normal people had designated ‘Homo fossor’ or human clown. There were many new classes of ‘humans’ in Circus City. From the fire-breathers, acrobats, freaks, contortionists, clowns, and numerous other ‘pseudo’ humans the Big Top had to offer. It had only been about forty years since the rest of the world

Descriptive writing transforms the writer’s words to life, often appealing to the senses, conveying information, and has either a subjective or objective tone. Through the writer’s descriptive word choice, the reader can paint the image in their head, as if it was an experience of their own. Description in a piece is so crucial it can make or break a good story. When a person can read a story and visually see what is happening, that is when one knows that the writer has done a successful job in using description. The way a writer inscribes his words can help to inspire the same feelings in a reader that the writer was feeling in that particular moment. Description creates a mood or atmosphere which can help contribute to the dominant impression. The dominant impression is usually a single word that gives an overall idea of the writer’s purpose. In the short story, There Will Come Soft Rains, the author Ray Bradbury uses superior description in this piece, which conveys the dominant impression of emptiness.

Many learned about analogies as early as elementary school. For example, happy is to joyful or sad is to depressed (“Analogies”). A famous, deeper analogy comes from the movie Forrest Gump when Forrest Gump says,”Mama always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get” (Forrest). Multiple types of analogies exist: synonym, antonym, characteristic, degree, etc. In general, an analogy is most commonly referred to as a detailed comparison between two things that have multiple points of relation.

The story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker was the best example of description. The author gives really good detail and makes it easy to picture the story in your head. An example of a point where she used good detail is in the first paragraph when she said, “... made each day a golden surprise that caused excited little tremors to run up her jaws.” the author could have just said that harvesting made her excited but she made us feel how excited she was. Another point where she used good detail was in the third paragraph when she described when she saw the water rising up and going down stream as “... tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale of soil…”. Also another point that caught my attention where she used great description was when