Descriptive Writing

Descriptive Writing
 A type of writing that gives a clear and
concise description of everything. It
includes places, people, object or an event.

• Describes a place

• Describes a person

• Describes a thing
• Describes an event

Descriptive writing
  Descriptive writing is written using 5  Descriptive writing often uses figurative
Descriptive writing senses language

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 DESCRIPTIVE WRITING TECHNIQUES
3. Organize all the details in
a chronological Order
1. Select a right topic

4. Use Figurative Language

2. Use descriptive words
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 Types of Descriptive writing 3. NATURE WRITING

1. BIOGRAPHY It describes the beauty of

nature. It can be fictional or
non-fictional
Biography is a form of detailed
work, tell you about famous
people’s life.

2. Travel writing 4. JOURNAL

Journals also refer to
Travel writing allows the periodicals and news
writer portray skills of papers that are published
descriptive writing in a great on a daily basis
way.
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 5. POETRY What is the purpose of Descriptive Writing?

This is form of Descriptive

writing that describes feelings,
emotion and ideas  The purpose of Descriptive Writing is to
paint a vivid picture in the readers mind
instead of simply informing them about
facts.
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  Descriptive writing helps the reader to In order to create a image in the readers mind,
identify the subject and instantly relate to it the writing needs to be

 DETAILED

 DESCRIPTIVE
 It is an effective tool for the author to
express their thoughts and ideas clearly
So as to strike the imagination of the audience
and accurately
and make it more impactful.

 Descriptive writing can find in

almost form of writing styles.
 It can be used to narrate the events more These styles include a journal,
intensely and persuade the thoughts of the travel writing, biography, poetry,
readers diary writing, nature writing,
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memoirs, etc.

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 FEATURES OF DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

3. Most of the forms of Descriptive writing are

Descriptive writing form encompasses the colorful and holds a vivid description of
following features: sensory details.

1. Descriptive writing describes all

information in chronological order

4. The use of simile, metaphor, and analogy.

These things are like the final touchup to the
2. Descriptive writing should have nouns, writing . Without them, a piece of descriptive
adjectives and strong action verbs . writing will remain incomplete.
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 EXAMPLE
Descriptive Writing
Not Descriptive Writing

I was happy

Reason: It only lays out the fact that you are

happy

Descriptive writing

I skipped all the way home, humming songs in

my head.

Reason: This sentence is vivid and descriptive

about your feelings that enables the reader to
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visualize what you are feeling today.

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 Showing Sentence

Telling Sentence or
Showing Sentence My heart felt heavy, I tried not to cry

Telling Sentence
Telling Sentence

I was sad
The classroom was a mess

Showing Sentence

Books, papers and tools were everywhere

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across the Classroom making the classroom

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look like a pigpen
 Descriptive Writing Examples
A good example of descriptive writing can be
seen in the following paragraph from harry
potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK
Rowling, where the Great Hall has been
described
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“ It was lit by thousands and thousand of
candles that were floating in mid-air over four
long tables, where the rest of the students
were sitting. These tables were laid with
glittering golden plates and goblets. At the top
of the hall was another long table where the
teachers were sitting. The hundreds of faces
staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the
flickering candlelight. Harry looked upward
and saw a velvety black ceiling dotted with
stars. It was hard to believe there was a ceiling
there at all, and that the Great hall didn’t
simply open on to the heaven.”
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 SOME TIPS YOU CAN
Descriptive Writing Examples USE TO MAKE YOUR
WRITING MORE
DESCRIPTIVE
Some Good Examples of Descriptive Writing
1. Add sensory Details

 The life of Princess Diana

 Describe the Castle at Vincennes 2. Visualize the Contents
 Describe the beauty of Niagara Falls
 The Great Himalaya Mountain Range
 Description of Childhood Memories 3. Focus on the little details

4. Avoid Redundancy

5. Use Imagery and other language

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techniques sparingly

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 SOME TIPS YOU CAN
USE TO MAKE YOUR
WRITING MORE
DESCRIPTIVE

6. Be mindful of the adverbs

And Adjectives
7. Appeal to the emotions of the
Audience
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