Example of Descriptive Essay

have a Dream’’ speech he uses the repetition of metaphors in his speech. Not only is King using metaphors, he is contrasting them as well to different concepts in his speech. This is proven to be very effective as the listener is serenaded with descriptive wordplay evoking imagery and vivid pictures. A quote of King putting contrasting words together to mean opposite ideas is, ‘’This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of…

Research by Ingrid Nelson (2010) introduced a very new and interesting method that could be used when conducting qualitative research which is the life history calendar (LHC). The article focused on giving the reader understanding of such method. Traditionally, it has been used for large-scale quantitative studies focusing on longitudinal studies, but semi-structured LHC allows participants to give their narratives and build rapport with the researcher (Nelson 2010). According to Nelson (2010),…

k-12. The book is inappropriate for students k-12 because it has descriptive inappropriate scenes. The book could affect the thoughts and actions of kids at a younger age.Others may try to argue that there is really only one bad part of the book. The book has a good storyline but no educational value and should not be read by kids k-12. The inappropriate scenes contain content that kids at a younger age should not be reading. For example in the book it says “She had no breast, just two shriveled…

planting, palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us." The quote not only shows us how difficult life must have been, but reveals nature's harsh conditions on the coming of man. An example of descriptive imagery of the Natives by Smith is "Powhatan more like a devil than a man, with some two hundred more as black as himself, came unto him." One event that highlighted the struggle between man and nature was "The President and…

The Bridge to Terabithia written by Katherine Patterson, won the Newbery Medal in 1987. This story was about a friendship between a boy named Jess and a girl named Leslie. In this story, they had an imaginary world they called Terabithia, and they were the queen and king.Their friendship was good, strong, and could not be broken. But one day, something tragic happens. Leslie dies and Jess has to use all his strength to recover from the tragic incident. This book deserved the Newbery award…

believing because dreams do come true. In the story All Summer in a Day, the characters act negatively because they were chasing something they never experienced. The author uses descriptive language to build the theme that when you desperately want something it can make you act differently than you normally do. For example, “But then they always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof, the gardens the forests and their dreams were gone.”…

In this novel the examples are clear when the examination of regional language as well as cultural references are found within the novel. Given that the author was Colombian, the vocabulary will stress the importance of the novel’s regional diversity. The author’s editor must…

poses a problem with the advent of psychology around the turn of the century. This view which could also be called scientific Instrumentalism, seems to falter when faced with some of the abstract concepts that psychology deals with, the mind for example. Not to say, that scientific realism doesn’t recognizes the existence of the mind, but more along the lines of questions some of the pragmatic purposed structures put forth by some philosophers and psychologist. The one claim that scientific…

Instead of having a lot of affection showed it is more hatred and violence. An example of this is when Samson is slowly walking in front of Delilah sniffing his can of petrol when Delilah gets pulled into a van and is abused by a group of male teenagers. This happens again when they are walking, but instead this time they are both sniffing…

Literature can use many methods to describe characters and create realistic descriptions of them. One example of a method used in literature is imagery. Imagery is visual description or figurative language that uses the human senses to seek a realistic and clear perspective of the characters. In the short story, The Most Dangerous Game, imagery was essential to bringing the viewer into the mindset of the characters. Such imagery shows the reader the developing features and roles of each…