Example of Descriptive Essay About a Place

sentence structure and similar themes to create different effects on the reader and to emphasize the themes of both stories. Firstly, the plot in both poems is akin because both describe a scene where the characters are left unselected or chosen. For example, in ‘Partners’, the theme starts more joyful using chirpy words like “whisper...shuffle...and rush” this adds emphasis of how cheerful the children are to be in pairs and not by themselves. This relates the reader to the rest of the class…

Writers often use imagery to paint a picture in the reader’s mind. In the stories “A Cask of Amontillado” and “The Most Dangerous Game,” both Poe and Connell use descriptive imagery. Poe describes the underground catacombs full of dead bodies and Connell describes the wild jungle on Ship Trap Island. Each of the authors use imagery to make their stories come to life. Poe uses imagery very well; however, Connell uses it in a better way and has more description. In the beginning of the story…

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 takes place in the not so distant future where books have been banned, and the world teeters on the brink of war. Guy Montag, Bradbury’s protagonist, works as a firefighter in a fireproofed world. Trained to set fires rather than put them out. Montag’s mission is to burn books wherever they can be found. After years on the job, he quickly becomes disillusioned with the homogenized and detached world that he lives in, and the consequences are startling. This…

The definition of setting is, the context and environment in which something is set. Setting is a very important part of literature. It creates a fuller and more realistic mood for the text. A descriptive setting can also help the plot line of the story. Setting can also help reveal more about the main characters. The settings in both “The Fall of The House of Usher” and “Where is Here” include a very important setting. The settings in these two pieces of literature help to create the correct…

What type of essay is Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain? Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain is a descriptive essay. Descriptive essays revolve around an author describing something, whether that be an object place or in this case Jessica Mitford describing the routine of a funeral home concerning how they prepare and present a corpse. What method(s) of developing an argument or organizational pattern(s) has Mitford used in the essay? Jessica Mitford primarily uses the process organizational…

Laurie Halse Anderson’s Historical Fiction novel, Fever 1793, takes place in Philadelphia- a large city- during the fever epedemic. Mattie Cook lives in a coffeehouse with her Mother, Grandfather, and her cook Eliza. By the time the fever epedemic breaks out, Mattie has to be strong in order to survive. Anderson uses descriptive words and sentence varitey to show the theme of the story; bravery. The author creates this lesson to show that someones bravery can save an entire city. The theme…

does. An example of his word choice would be, “Very seldom if ever in the history of the world has a sociopolitical document expressed in such profoundly eloquent and unequivocal language the dignity and the worth of human personality” (King 173). He uses strong vocabulary and words that have a deeper meaning than just, you need to believe this way because it is cool. In “Travels With Charley,” Steinbeck uses a very descriptive word choice when explaining the views he has on the places he visits…

Every great story needs a great setting in which to take place. The setting of the story is just as important as the characters and theme. Vividly portraying the setting will develop the reader’s imagination. Creating a great setting will allow the readers imagination to feel as if he or she were actually present in the story. A setting of a story must be colorful, descriptive and inquisitive. Shirley Jackson did a tremendous job of creating such a setting in the story “The Lottery.” The…

It is these eyewitnesses who were there in person that can give an accurate account of what happen. Meaning it did not have to go through three or four people, and lose some of its attestation. For example; when Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus Christ she saw He was not there. She saw 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…

1,150 miles of nothing but ice cold snow, and determination. This is the reality of the Iditarod, a race the main character of my book Gary Paulsen competes in. This race takes place in Alaska where elite runners face the hardest terrain in the world and cover 1,150 miles of land with their dogs. In this book, Gary starts training with practically no experience and no racing dogs to run the longest race in existence but, ends up not only running the race once but twice and wins the second time.…