Examples of Descriptive Essay

Tally was going through. For example, “They were all dressed in formals, raw silks in black and gray, and their faces had the same cold, hawkish look.” Here the specials were being described, which lead to the reader imagining the specials are scary and hawk like. Another example, “ Her voice had the same slow, neutral cadence as a bedtime book. But it hardly made Tally sleepy. An edge was hidden in the voice, like a piece of metal slowly marking glass.” In this example, the author is using…

books, causing the reader to experience the way Bardugo would have said it if she were to stand right next to them. A example to show this is from Bardugo’s book , Shadow and bone, “ I’m not Grisha. I’m a mapmaker. I’m not even a very good mapmaker”(53). In this piece of evidence Alina, the…

use prescriptive rules simply because we suppose to speak a language in that way. However, other scientists like Steven Pinker, think we should use the “descriptive” rules. According to Steven Pinker (1994), descriptive rules “describing how people do talk” (p.1). After reading the article, I agree with Steven’s point that we should use “descriptive” rules, because we cannot build the “prescriptive” rules without other fundamental rules. Also, what is “correct English”? Who tells us so? Even…

between men and women in Congress, women in the United States lack descriptive representation and substantive representation. Descriptive representation refers to whether your Congressperson “looks” like their constituents. Descriptive representation could be in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, etc. Substantive representation is the tendency of elected legislators to act on behalf of certain groups. For example, a legislator might advocate for a gun rights bill on…

wanted to separate himself from his family because his father was a judge in the Salem trials. Hawthorne lived in a time where authors did not put pictures in their writings. Due to this Hawthorne wrote very detailed and descriptive poems. By using very detailed and descriptive writing ways he was able to capture the roughness of life in his poem “The Ocean”. He did this by using imagery, personification, and rhyming. One way Hawthorne wrote very detailed poems was by using imagery. When…

kilometres, c) Hypothetical units : These units are used to facilitate comparison, examples are horsepower, coal equivalent . Units of analysis and interpretation These are units where subjects and objects or attributes of subjects and objects are not only named but compared. The following are the types…

After re-reading all of the previous stories, I picked the story that had what I thought, the best examples of descriptive writing. Putting all these thoughts in account, I chose“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst. All throughout the story, there is so much description. The first page is a great example. I do not have enough space to put down the whole entire first page but I can give examples. Examples such as, “The flower garden is prim, the house a gleaming white, and the pale fence across the…

from his speech that day. The election of the 45th president of the United States has been a controversial roller coaster. While describing his goals for the next four years as president, Trump seems to adopt a hopeful tone and uses much vivid and descriptive diction and syntax to rhetorically impact his inaugural address. President Trump uses what many of supporters could say was a hopeful tone. If one were a president, hope is something…

trying to escape a seemingly unsolvable Maze, which is a test to see who can survive. The novel Maze Runner by James Dashner is better in comparison to the movie as the book is more descriptive, the ending is better and the book has information the movie does not. Firstly, the novel Maze Runner tends to be more descriptive as the author has the opportunity to use various languages to support his point; whereas in the movie, the director is limited to time. Movies do not give the readers the…

language so popular throughout the world today.” Finegan describes descriptive and prescriptive views of language to argue that English is not falling apart, but simply changing as time progresses. John Simon, on the other hand, argues that “good English” needs to be preserved because any other form of English is a product of ignorance. Finegan starts off his argument by analyzing descriptive and prescriptive grammar. He states, “Descriptive grammarians ask the question, “What is English (or…