Example of a Descriptive Essay

uses alot of repetition, Which helps the reader pull out the main parts of the story. The parts that the author keeps making because it is important in the story. Silverstein continously uses the word once to show that he once did something. For example, he says "Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings" and he says "Once I understood each word the caterpillar said". He says that to show the reader he did that. Also he does it to show that him doing that was important and a key…

this book. The sex scenes in this book are very descriptive and somewhat unnecessary to tell the story. “Soon Michael moaned and I felt him come- a pulsating wet feeling, a throbbing, like the books-then wetness.” (78) This is one of the many descriptive sex scenes in the book. It is nonessential to tell the story. Teens should not be exposed to this kind of content at such a early age. Tons of four letter words are used in this book, for example, when Jamie says “Were you fucking?” Swearing is…

In Nisccomachean Ethics Book VII, Aristotle argues that there are three types of friendships; that being, utility, pleasure and goodness. Goodness, encompasses both utility and pleasure and only exists when both people involved admire each other’s goodness over a long period of time; this sort of friendship is very rare. According to Aristotle friendship is either “a virtue or implies virtue,” if there is something loveable in a person, “for not everything seems to be loved but only the lovable…

regarding a warrior whose lord, friends, and land have been destroyed by war. Many elements of the poem bring its sorrowful message to life, such as the perspective it is told in, its elegiac tone common to the poetry of the time, its eloquent, descriptive diction, and, although not necessarily mournful, a transition into something more of a wisdom poem. Most of these qualities exemplify the style of writing found in various works of the Anglo-Saxon era. First of all, the poet made the choice…

Jackson and Rutledge’s writing pieces are completely different, they are also similar. They are different by their reason for writing their individual writing pieces and their sentences structure. But, they are also similar because they use tone and descriptive language. Michael Rutledge wrote “Samuel’s Memory” to have people remember the horrors of the Trail of Tears that his great grandson’s endured. “My mother and I are taken by several men to where their horses are and are held there at…

assumption, I would claim that a person’s goal in life should be to achieve happiness and fulfill the nature of their self. I believe that this is Haybron’s strongest example of practical utility within his theory. Taking all of these descriptions of the significance…

of the challenges he will face are mental blocks and trying not give up along with other challenges of finding dogs to run and training. Winterdance addresses the hardships of running the Iditarod, the fight for survival while being very simple, descriptive, and serious. Gary Paulsen wrote the book Winterdance to inform the readers of the survival aspect of competing in this race in the book he shows some of these…

Throughout the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” the author constantly uses many forms of imagery to help prove his point. With his use of similes, descriptive imagery and powerful word choice, Wilfred Owen, the author, is able to get the reader to understand the real side of war; a fight that is a horrific and disturbing experience to those fighting, which is contrary to the popular belief that war brings glory to those who partake in it. Owen utilizes creative similes to help the reader…

sport” because those essays had a substantial amount of room for improvement. I will be using the “student profile” because it proves my mastery of writing profile essays. In college being concrete is important, so I also chose the descriptive paragraph as an example of an acquired style choice. With my proposing a solution essay, “combatting absenteeism” I moved some paragraphs around to make the problem of absenteeism more clearly brought to the reader’s attention. While moving paragraphs…

Steinbeck in 1962 “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception.” (www.nobelprize.org). Published in 1937, “Of Mice and Men” is an appealing, classic novel and has been recognized for its descriptive writing style that Steinbeck possesses to illustrate of the time during the Great Depression. Despite the effective writing style, many people have criticized the novel for containing the improper use of English and the inappropriate…