Descriptive Essay Example About a Place

Jordan Wilson Ms. Levine AP Language and Composition 20 November 2014 In Debra Marquart’s 2006 memoir, The Horizontal World, Marquart tells about growing up in North Dakota. Through her use of allusions, descriptive language, and anecdotes in her memoir, Debra Marquart characterizes her beloved home of North Dakota as bland and ordinary, yet meaningful. Throughout the passage, Marquart frequently alludes to some of the upper Midwest’s assessors such as Sylvia Griffith Wheeler and Edwin…

information all adds up and seems reliable because of the detailed information and all the people referenced in the article. This article shines the light on the efforts to ending animal testing, but the article is not biased. Although there is descriptive results of brutal cases caused by animal testing in the beginning, all four were horror situations that were real. The author simply informed the audience with out her opinion added in. The goal was to inform people of the testing done in…

watermelon. In my autobiographical essay, I wrote about my passion for running and how cross country fed this frenzy. Watermelon is one of the biggest fruits, but it has some of the tiniest seeds inside. My love for running is like the vast size of a watermelon—it was the big idea of the essay. All of the experiences I use in my essay are like the tiny seeds—they are the small details that make up the big idea. I can easily find comparisons between my descriptive paper and a pineapple. The…

In reviewing the poem Isla, written by Virgil Suarez, I believe that Suarez is speaking about his life and the challenges that they had to endure while in the Caribbean’s. The first image that I see use is Godzilla, which I see it as describing how he and his family may have felt moving from a place that they once called home and then been forced to live in a foreign place. The writer references Godzilla because he wants his readers to see how the mother and child felt being somewhere he did not…

two angels sitting in the tomb, she turns and then turn back and saw Jesus Standing there. After, their conversation Jesus told Mary to go tell the others what she just saw and heard. This is an eyewitness account that Richard Bauckham was speaking about in his…

The title, ¨ Dulce Et Decorum Est¨ creates an illusion that tricks the reader into believing that this poem is going to be about how wonderful it is to fight for your country, but after he or she has read it he or she will learn that it was the opposite. In this poem, the writer uses irony in order to emphasize more on the meaning of the poem, rather than the title.Dulce Et…

Moose A Muffin” by Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond Standard: (1.RL.3) Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. Objective: Students will be able to describe characters of the story, identify the place, and major events happening. As a Formative assessment, I will stop from reading the book, and I will check for understanding of the expectations, and familiarize with the questions focusing on key details, forming Oral Questioning: What does…

I chose the episodic narrative piece because I believe it was the hardest, yet most interesting writing I have written this semester. I struggled with this piece because I tend to have too many details in my stories. The episodic narrative allowed me to get out of my comfort zone and keep my writing precise, but also work on only using important details. The episodic narrative began as a slightly different list of vacations. Even within the vacations I had from the beginning I revised my ideas…

ReadWorks, the text is about a man going to Canada for a few days to retrieve something he left behind when he moved to the United States. Mood is the state of feeling from the author that develops during the pursue of different texts, art works, or music. The mood of “Back Roads” by Vinnie Rotondaro is relaxed shown through setting, and the mood for “A Winter’s Drive” by ReadWorks was anxious shown through imagery. In “Back Roads” by Vinnie Rotondaro, the story is about two men traveling…

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