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Descriptive writing aims to help readers visualize people, places, or objects through sensory details, figurative language, and a dominant impression. Key elements include precise language and careful organization to enhance clarity and engagement. The structure should evoke the reader's senses and create a vivid mental picture of the subject matter.

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Descriptive

Descriptive writing aims to help readers visualize people, places, or objects through sensory details, figurative language, and a dominant impression. Key elements include precise language and careful organization to enhance clarity and engagement. The structure should evoke the reader's senses and create a vivid mental picture of the subject matter.

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DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

What is descriptive Writing?


- helps readers create a clear picture of people, places or objects in
their mind.

- provides details that help the readers see, hear, taste, smell, or feel
something that the writer has experienced.
Structure of a Descriptive Writing
Elements of Descriptive Writing
• Sensory details
• Figurative language
• Dominant impression
• Precise language
• Careful organization
1. Sensory details (Why?)
• allow you paint a picture

• help the readers see, hear, taste, feel, smell like the writer

• Allow the readers to put themselves into the story mentally by


forming a picture in his or her mind
1. Sensory details (What?)
1. Sensory details (examples)
2. Figurative language (why?)
• gives more vivid description
• helps the readers visualize
• creates special effects and feelings in writing
• appeals the readers most
2. Figurative Language (examples)
3. Dominant impression
• is the overall attitude, mood or feeling about the subject
• Unifies the description and gives readers an overall sense of what the
person, place, object or scene looks like (and perhaps what it sounds,
smells, tastes or feels like)
3. Dominant impression (examples?)
4. Precise language
• Using vague, general or fuzzy language should be avoided.
E.g- The food is good. The book is good.
The food is delicious. The book is interesting.

• Using precise verbs, adjectives helps your readers see more.


E.g- I walked there.
I ran there. I rushed there. I hurried there.
4. Precise language
5. Careful organization
• helps the readers get the information clearly
• Includes
- chronological (time): events or changes that occur over time
- spatial (place) : terms of physical position of its part- top to bottom
or left to right,etc:
- order of importance : most to least or least to most.
5. Careful Organization
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