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Techniques for Vivid Descriptive Writing

This document provides techniques for descriptive writing, including showing rather than telling, using the five senses, zooming in and out, and making associations. It outlines a structure for descriptive writing with five steps: choosing a setting including time, place and atmosphere; positioning within the setting; approaching and arriving; and leaving. Tips are given to use figures of speech like similes, metaphors, personification and alliteration as well as symbolic objects to suggest ideas and emotions. Descriptive writing aims to create vivid pictures through sensory imagery and feelings.

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Techniques for Vivid Descriptive Writing

This document provides techniques for descriptive writing, including showing rather than telling, using the five senses, zooming in and out, and making associations. It outlines a structure for descriptive writing with five steps: choosing a setting including time, place and atmosphere; positioning within the setting; approaching and arriving; and leaving. Tips are given to use figures of speech like similes, metaphors, personification and alliteration as well as symbolic objects to suggest ideas and emotions. Descriptive writing aims to create vivid pictures through sensory imagery and feelings.

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Descriptive Writing- (NOTES)

A good description creates a vivid picture of a person, place or thing and, sometimes, how the author feels
about it. Often the author will describe what happens or what something or someone is like as well as
expressing their emotions. To do this they need to create an image, feeling or emotion in words.

Techniques:
1. Show not tell
2. 5 senses/Sensory Imagery
-Olfactory (visual)
-Auditory (Hear)
-Tactile (Touch)
- Gustatorial (Taste)
-Visual (See)
3. Zoom in Zoom out
-Describe the atmosphere and then the main object
4. Association/Connection
How to write a Descriptive Text? [STRUCTURE]
1. Choose the SETTING
>Time
>Place
>Atmosphere
>Mood
2. Positioning
➢ Exact place
➢ {eg: Van or a Room in a castle}
3. Approaching
➢ Moving towards the setting and the things around before reaching the
destination. [Zoom out to Zoom in to Zoom out again
4. Arriving
>At the start of the destination
5. Leaving
➢ Conclusion

Tips:
Use:
1. FOS
2. Literary Devices
3. Good Vocab
Using figures of speech to create images in
words
Using similes

A simile is when you liken or compare something to something different. Usually a simile uses the words
like or as.

For example,

Her mouth snapped shut like an iron trap.


His personality was as scarred and marked as his pock marked face.

Using metaphors

A metaphor is saying something is something else completely different – not saying it is like something
completely different.

For example,

Your brother is a pig when he eats. The test was a breeze.

Using personification

Personification is giving human qualities to things. For example,

The breeze played with his hair. The waves caressed her hot body.

Using alliteration

Alliteration is using the same initial sound for a string of words For example,

She is a bright and bubbly baby. ... the whispering of the wind.

Using symbolic objects to suggest ideas or


emotions
Some objects are associated with emotions or ideas. For example,

white doves are associated with peace;


the devil is associated with evil;
prisons and zoos are associated with lack of freedom; stones and rock are associated with
strength or coldness.

Some colours are also associated with ideas and emotions. In western society black is often associated
with evil or death and white with purity and weddings. Different cultures may associate different things
with these colours.

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