Developing Descriptive Writing

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Developing Descriptive Writing
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Look at the picture again closely. Then read
Description A Description B.
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Description A
Beyond the bridge is an old lock.
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Description B
Beyond the low wooden bridge the old lock sleeps,
forgotten and motionless as if trapped by the
strange, haunting trees that surround it.
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Think about the descriptions. Which one do you
like the best and why?
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Description A This is a very simple
description, the reader does not have to think
very much. It just tells you what is there.
Beyond the wall is an old lock.
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Description B Here the writer has taken the
simple description and added to it. Now the
reader has to think and use imagination.
Beyond the low, wooden bridge the old lock
sleeps, forgotten and motionless as if trapped by
the strange, haunting trees that surround it.
Lets look more closely.
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Beyond the low, wooden bridge the old lock sleeps
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Adjectives low, wooden and old - used to
describe the bridge and the lock.
Verb / Personification sleeps The writer has
made the lock seem human.
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The writer has also used the word haunting.
haunting suggests something mysterious or
frightening.
With this one word the writer has introduced a
sense of mystery. Just what is happening in the
picture?
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What else can the writer use? Lets add another
sentence to Description B.
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Description B
Beyond the low wooden bridge the old lock sleeps,
forgotten and motionless as if trapped by the
strange haunting trees that surround it. Their
branches are like a tall giants fine fingers
grasping at the walls.
What has the writer used now?
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Their branches are like a tall giants fine,
fingers grasping at the walls .
Simile like the writer has said the subject
is like something else. It adds to the picture in
the readers imagination.
Alliteration fine, fingers words with the
same beginning sound used one after another. It
sounds super!
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What makes good descriptive writing?
In some ways it is like building a wall, the
writer needs to use the right building blocks?
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These are just some of the building blocks!
Similes
Alliteration
Personification
Adjectives
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Now look at some different pictures of Fourteen
Locks. Make a mind map of your ideas for
description. Use your ideas to write exciting
descriptive sentences.
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Remember to use the building blocks!
Similes
Alliteration
Personification
Adjectives