Writing to Describe

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Writing to Describe

• Objectives To understand the conventions of
  writing to describe.

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Conventions things you should do

• When writing to describe, you are trying to
  create a picture in the readers head. To do
  this, you have a number of techniques at your
  disposal
• Similes
• A simile is when you compare something to
  something else, for example as strong as an ox
  or red like a rose
• Metaphors
• A Metaphor is when something is transformed into
  something else for descriptive purposes, for
  example He was a pig or the car flew down the
  road.

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Basics

• Verbs Doing words
• Adjectives Describing words
• Adverbs Describe how an action is performed
  (usually ending in ly)

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Can you match terms to definitions?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Power words

• Words that sound like the noise they describe.
• Comparing two things, saying something is like
  something else.
• Saying something is something else.
• Tragic instead of sad vast instead if big
  deafening instead of loud.
• Repeated letter sounds in a phrase of sentence.

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Can you match terms to definitions?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Power words

• Words that sound like the noise they describe.
• Comparing two things, saying something is like
  something else.
• Saying something is something else.
• Tragic instead of sad vast instead if big
  deafening instead of loud.
• Repeated letter sounds in a phrase of sentence.

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Describing box one
The rain beat down like a drum. It left pools on
the ground like mysterious, ever increasing crop
circles. It felt as if the world was going to be
washed away. The stormy sky had darkened to inky
black.
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Describing box one
onomatopoeia
simile
The rain beat down like a drum. It left pools on
the ground like mysterious, ever increasing crop
circles. It felt as if the world was going to be
washed away. The stormy sky had darkened to inky
black.
metaphor
simile
simile
alliteration
power word
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Using the skills you have learned.

• In as much detail as you can and using all the
  techniques you have learned, describe the
  classroom you are in.
• Be as imaginative as you want and dont be afraid
  to try an individual approach.