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DESCRIPTION EXERCISE _ 2

 (conveying a sense of place, ambient, situation , etc.)


 Using the strategy of “feel and sense”

1. “The sweeping view across the Glenorchy basin can’t be absorbed in a quick glance. 
Beyond Diamond Lake in the foreground, lush green farmland meanders across the valley,
dotted with white specks of sheep and rows of jagged tooth massifs in the distance.”

** The amazing, stunning, remarkable, outstanding….


** Can't be better described, can't appreciated, can't be truly digested, can't be really
enjoyed….
** in just a fast moment, in only few seconds, in a quick visit, in a swift look, ….
** Beyond the central area, beyond the four-block shopping area, beyond the limits of the
market's district…..
** narrow ancient playfully advances towards the river…the ample modern boulevard
Stewart agitatedly aims into the cathedral…circular opaque city-roads quietly/simply take
you to….
** painted, sculpted, bathed, filled, adjourned by/with small city
lights/windows/gardens/bike parking spaces….and series, rows, chains, lines, of prominent
facades of Victorian houses, steamed door of middle class apartment-buildings,
dried(deserted) skirt hills…in the background, on the river side, on the east side, where the
mountain lies…

2. “Further on, pink and magenta lupines provide a curtain of bright color against the green
marshlands and a gray mountain backdrop.”

3. “Moving on, I walk along white gravel pathways that meander past scenes from what I
would imagine hell to be like.  Billowing clouds of hot steam and mist escape from jagged
rents in the earth’s narrow crust.  An overpowering smell of sulphur assaults my nose,
while plumes of white geysers erupt from boreholes in the barren rock”

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