Descriptive Writing

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Descriptive Writing
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Descriptive Writing

• Sense Impressions
• Describe a banana split
• Sight
• Hearing
• Smell
• Touch
• Taste

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Sense Impressions

• Describe a banana split
• Sight My eyes devoured the large round tubs of
  ice cream as I picked my favorite flavors of
  rocky road, vanilla, and praline.
• Hearing I heard the familiar shhhhh of whipped
  cream
• being swirled atop my banana split.
• Smell I could smell the warm sweet chocolate as
  she placed the dessert in front of me.
• Touch The frosty silver dish was icy cold.
• Taste I could taste the soft banana, tangy
  cheery, and light whipped cream as I took my
  first bite.

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Spacial Order 1 of 2

• Describe a mountain
• A. top to bottom
• B. bottom to top
• C. left to right
• D right to left

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Spacial Order 2 of 2

• Describing the Classroom
• Near
• Far

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Dominant Impression

• Establish in the thesis
• The spooky house on Dream Lane
• gave me nightmares.

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Establish a dominant impression and then describe
using senses

• sight
• sound
• touch
• smell
• taste

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The spooky house on Dream Lanegave me nightmares.
Sight The black house was covered in moss and
cobwebs. Sound A wolf howled at the moon and bats
cried in the distance. Touch The front door knob
was as cold as ice. Smell As I opened the door, I
smelled the dust of years and years. Taste As I
inhaled, I could taste the damp and mold that
was growing in the house.