Descriptive Writing with Paragraphs | Grade 9
I'm sure you can define the word "describe", but what exactly is descriptive writing? To refresh your memory, let us go back to a definition of descriptive writing - In descriptive writing, the author does not just tell the reader what was seen, felt, tested, smelled, or heard. Rather, the author describes something from their own experience and, through careful choice of words and phrasing, makes it seem real. Descriptive writing is vivid, colourful, and detailed. Good descriptive writing creates an impression in the reader's mind of an event, a place, a person, or a thing. The writing will be such that it will set a mood or describe something in such detail that if the reader saw it, they would recognise it. Descriptive Writing Techniques Here are some examples of descriptive writing techniques that you can utilise and effectively apply to your own writing. Choosing your focus: When you first begin writing, it's extremely important to decide what your topic...