Descriptive Writing

How should sentence style and word choice be used in writing a description?

• Word choice and sentence style should match the subject and the purpose; the words and style should reinforce the mood.

• Sentence style and word choice are not relevant to writing a description.

• Word choice and sentence style should not match the subject and the purpose; the words should not take away from the visual that the description creates.

Answer explanation

Meme break

________is the one thing you are describing which is your main point.

• Brainstorming

• reference point

• conclusion

• dominant impression

Answer explanation

The dominant impression of a description is its central and unifying theme; it is the feeling you are trying to convey condensed into a single word or phrase. In a paper of this nature, you should describe as vividly as you can the physical characteristics of a person or a place about which you have a strong feeling.

Which sensory detail does this statement appeal to?
The sun's rays warmed my face as I stepped outside.

• smell

• sight

• touch

• taste

Which sentence from the selection best appeals to the reader's sense of sight.

• "It was late in the day when they departed."

• They marched into the woods that surrounded their underground home.

• "Long shadows stretched over the entrance to the ant kingdom."

• "One by one, the insects climbed out."

Answer explanation

Meme break for fun take your time with the quiz it doesn't matter who comes first as long as you get the correct answers. : )

When writing a description you can use your ...of real people, places or things.

• Memories

• Opinions

'Write about the day you first met your best friend. Describe where and how you began talking to each other. Explain how your friendship has developed since that time.' What descriptive would you write if this question appeared?

• descriptive of a place

• descriptive of a person

• descriptive of an event / experience

• Descriptive of a feeling

How can you surprise the reader when writing a description?

• By writing something scary

• By writing a plot twist

• By allowing them to see what you are describing in a new way or from a different perspective

What are the 5 sensory response systems that a writer should use when writing a description?

The content of descriptive writing can be imagined

• vividly

• slightly

• faintly

"Barefoot, The warm mud molds my feet."

• see

• hear

• touch

• taste