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the pattern of development which

goes into details about a specific
object, person, or location, in order to
firmly set its appearance
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plays an important role to elucidate

the nature of people, places and
things
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a series of detailed observations

about the subject
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involves the use of adjectives and

adverbs in the paragraph
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uses sensory images (looks, sounds,

smells, tastes, feels)
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✓writer presents ✓looks into factual and
impartial and actual scientific
picture of the subject characteristics of what
without biases and is being described as
excluding personal objectively as possible
impression of the
subject
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✓The writer stays away EXAMPLE:
from emotional
impressions or when you give your
responses and instead, description of an
describes the scene as experiment in class
it is.
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The Acer barbatum is a small to medium-sized,

deciduous tree usually ranging from 15 to 25 m.
(50 to 80 ft.) tall when mature. Its bark is light gray
and smooth on younger trees, and it becomes
ridged and furrowed with age. Leaves are opposite
and shallowly to deeply palmately lobed, with a
few blunt teeth but no serrations.
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The leaf sinuses are rounded, unlike those of

red maple (Acer rubrum) which are sharply
V-shaped. Also, the sides of terminal leaf
lobes are more or less parallel, while those
of red maple are widest at the base, tapering
to the tip.
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✓writer gives personal
impression of what is
observed; often used in
making fiction stories.
✓a sort of description that
the author would
normally use to “paint a
picture” of how he sees a
character, or how he
wants the reader to see a
character
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✓also used in a literary EXAMPLE:
discourse when there when you are asked to
is stereotyped image write about a place you
that can be attributed visit during summer
to a person, place, or vacation, you tend to give
an event your personal judgment of
how you experience the
place.
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My mother had hair so dark that

it looked like a waterfall of ink.
She always kept it in a braid that
fell to her slim waist, and
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always tied with a plain black

band. The braid of black slung
over her shoulder, the plaits
shining like scales.
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