Description Essay

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, can be found in both print and digital edition in the collection at Trent Park Elementary. Both of the formats are able to be located through the library’s online catalog. There is a difference in the appearance, description, location and how the information about the resource is cataloged. Discovery To access both the print and digital edition of The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, a search must be done in the library’s online catalog, Destiny. Users are able to…

The entirety of the Scholar’s character in ‘The Scholar and His Cat’ has an underlying need for control and arrogance towards those who are illiterate. This is shown quite clearly through his comparison and description of his Cat’s actions. The Scholar is the speaker of this work and his opinion is the only one presented. Using this control in his writing he undermines the cat’s ability to make his own more highly sought after. Yet the way he speaks hints at a deeper concealed feelings towards…

and short descriptions of each child, before and after a dental treatment was compared. On rating of pre-dental treatment drawing sheets, it was found that the majority of the drawings (80%) were irrelevant, which didn’t show anything related to the dentist or dental treatment. Few children (5%) drew pictures having a mix of relevant and irrelevant items and those were considered as neutral. Some children (15%) drew relevant pictures. Most of the children (90%) gave a neutral description about…

instance the poet uses great sentences which are concise and succinct, this makes the rhythm of the poem appealing towards the audience. Along with concise sentences, the poem has the use of accuracy as well. The sentences are inclusive of the great description which uses poetic…

authors have a wide range of strong elements to create a better story for the reader. Both these stories have vast dialogue although Oates’ Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been demonstrates a better job. By using crisp dialogue, great character description, setting, and third person omniscient point of view, I found it was much easier to follow the plot of Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been and the story was far more interesting than The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Overall, I enjoyed the…

dies, Mattie then starts living with her restaurant cook and taking care of the sick until the fever breaks and the frost comes. While reading this book three author’s craft moves that I saw were - one person point of view, metaphor and lastly description. I saw that the author used these three craft moves to accomplish a variety…

on cultural interactions. The respective narrators of Hope Leslie and The Last of the Mohicans apply a similar spin in their descriptions of violence, character abilities, and wrong doing in a way that favors the White characters over the Indian characters. One example of this spin is in how descriptions of violence perpetrated by White characters compare to descriptions of violence perpetrated by Indian characters. A major example of this is in the Last of the Mohicans. The white character,…

was learned about him. Another thing that is eminent is that he was smarter and stronger than most people because of the handicaps that he wore. The reader could picture Harrison and what problem was occurring. Introducing the characters through descriptions helped the story as a whole and helped the reader to understand the…

different plants and animals. The description of Passage One seemed to avoid words that provided a negative connotation towards the swamp, and this was able to create the harmonious image of the swamp that the author hoped for. Passage Two was much more horrifying than it was harmonious. The horrifying nature of Passage Two came from its word choice that includes words such as, “deliquesce, ” “unfathomable, ”“unconquerable,” and “misery,” which all contributed to a description that was…

relating to the Cabral-de León family and their plight within a context of Dominican culture promoting machismo and sexism. Led by Yunior, a man centered around womanizing and also of close relation to the family, the narration entails a lively description of the accounts of the Cabral-de León family while demonstrating the effects that machismo has on society. The novel mainly circles around the happenings of Oscar de León, but his story is told through the narratives of the family that came…