Students are working on descriptive papers in all of Mr. Leckrone's English classes. What characterizes descriptive writing, you ask? Simply put, it is used to describe a person, place or thing in vivid detail.
From The Writing Site.org (www.thewritingsite.org):
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.
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.
Characteristics:
- 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
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