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Descriptive writing examples

A Place
Excerpt from "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
"The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away
from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow
cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key
higher. Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled
with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word."
An Event
• Excerpt from "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer*
• "The afternoon of May 10, 1996, my guide, Anatoli
Boukreev, and I reached the summit of Mount
Everest. The sky above us was the color of
television, tuned to a dead channel. The wind
whipped at us with the force of a hurricane,
threatening to tear us from the mountain and fling
us into the abyss below. But for a moment, as we
stood there, 29,028 feet above sea level, we felt
invincible, triumphant, on top of the world."
A person
• Excerpt from "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austin
• Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by
his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble
mien, and the report which was in general
circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of
his having ten thousand a year."
By Hashir Maqbool

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