Example of a Descriptive Essay

Do you think a person has two sides? If a person hides the side they feel ashamed of will it come back to haunt that person?In society there are many people who have different sides to themselves in my opinion. For example,when a student goes with one group to another they have different personalities because they can change personalities that quick. Well,in the novel,Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde a mad scientist makes a potion or drug that is impure where he then drinks it and it turns…

themes for a story or book. W.W. Jacobs uses techniques like dialogue, descriptive words and phrases, and the characters feelings/actions to create the theme of “Wishes can come true but come with consequences” in the story The Monkey’s Paw. He uses dialogue between characters to create a feeling in the book and in the reader which leads to the creation of a theme. In the book a conversation between Mr. and Mrs. White show an example of this when they say “The other two wishes,” she replied…

quite differently (“cross-sectional vs. longitudinal studies | Institute for Work & Health,” n.d.). Cross-sectional designs that use the method of collecting and comparing data from multiple cohorts of different ages at the same point of time. An example would be including 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 year olds to measure the effect of age on smoking. They were all recruited at the same point in time but have different levels of age variable (years of life). This design is much less expensive in…

Grendel is the use of the kennings, “Shepard of evil and guardian of crime” (Line 191). Reading this quote the reader can clearly see how evil Grendel is. We also picture that he has done crime. Kennings can also be used to describe Beowulf; for example, “mighty protector of men” (Line 132). This is making the reader picture how Beowulf protects men. The use of kennings help us picture the character which in return helps the reader picture the epic. Although the use of kennings is a great way to…

Macon Dead’s personality through the other characters and his role in the household. This type of narrative, where the characters are discovered mainly through the other characters, is consistent throughout the whole novel. Ruth's character, for example, was shown to be isolated from the black community and thought of as a wanna-be white women from the appearance of the others and their actions during Mr. Smith’s suicide leap. Macon is described indirectly as a volcano because he was ‘likely…

Paper It is incredible how people describe with such detail what the brain sees. Each person has there own way of explaining or representing what they see, with little or a lot of detail and examples. There are people that have a certain connection with nature and how it affects them. William Wordsworth is an example of a person who wrote about nature, regarding how he sees it and how it affects him personally. Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet, of which whom started the Romantic Age in…

I wasn’t required to actually take your English class; however, the class was a good start at getting back into writing and bias analysis in literature. Completing rhetorical analyses defiantly needed a scrub down and cleared the dust off of my eyes. I wouldn’t say that my overall English writing had improved in this course, but that is not to say that it was useless for me. Exposure to writings that irked me and writing about them pushed me out of my comfort zone, forcing me to try to find a…

As writers, Obama and Jeter both explain the strategies they use to convey their experience, challenges and goals. The strategy Jeter use is questioning to ask the reader what they really what to do with their lives.Questioning”What would you love to do? What are you good at? What would you like to do for the rest of your life?”(Jeter,61). Other strategies he uses is colloquial language. Jeter uses colloquial language to introduce two central ideas, goals, and dreams specifically: the…

Another example of his usage of imagery is when he says, “to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash…” And by using these descriptive adjectives, we are able to paint a horrifyingly vivid image in our minds with regards to the cruelties that slaves endured. Along with using antitheses, enthymemes, and vivid imagery, Douglass also incorporates the technique of using metaphors in his oration. An example of this is when he says, “There is not a man…

The first is a descriptive method which deals with frequency claims which better allow for the isolation of single variables within studies (lecture, 09/01/2015). In this instance self-reporting surveys on racial identity conflict would be insightful as to how it can affect…