Grades 9 and 10 - English Language - High School - Writing Descriptively — Flashcards | 9th Grade English Language Arts | FatSkills

Grades 9 and 10 - English Language - High School - Writing Descriptively — Flashcards

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Writing descriptively involves describing a setting, a person, or even an emotion. Writing a description allows you to fully engage your own imagination and that of your reader. Being restricted to the written word when evoking a three-dimensional, multi-sensory environment is a challenge, but, as you know, good authors can do precisely that. The key to writing a good description is to make full use of the English language and to think carefully about choosing exactly the right word for the impression you'd like to convey.

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In the opening chapter to John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, we find this description:  'A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down river.'   This is a good example of...
choosing verbs with precision
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