How to Write a Descriptive Essay

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    writing styles. These contrasting styles are shown in the types of sentences they created and their subject matters. The style Fitzgerald possesses is eloquent and he is known for his flowery descriptive language whereas Hemingway is known for his short, simple sentences. As for the subject, Hemingway writes gritty, very realistic material while Fitzgerald's writing is centered around social hierarchy and often longing to be with another person. These differences are especially evident when…

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    demonstrated the best example of description. In the story, it says “As I did, I kicked sideways, caught my knee on a sharp snag, and felt the wood enter under the kneecap and tear it loose.” This description of how his knee was torn makes you wince and clutch your own knee in pain as he describes how the injury happens. The explanation he gives makes you picture the vivid scene in action. Description is also shown where it says “Later I saw the beauty of it, the falling lobes of blue ice that…

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    Strategy Review To: Professor Allen Z. Reich, PH. D. From: Matthew McGinnis Due Date: June 27, 2016 Subject: Marketing Research (Web design) Summary This article talks about how to create a website that will be marketable to the clients that visit the website. It goes into detail about how to design your webpage and how to develop the page overall. Technology has always been a way for companies to market their products. By using a website and knowing the objectives of this website it is…

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    specially related to language skills. His mother also perceive that Patrick performs better when he has additional time to analyze information. Despite his disability, Patrick can read and write, however, but not at the same level as students of his age, his IQ Verbal score is 55. He is more motivated to write when the assignment involves a topic that he enjoys, such as animals, ocean and planets. While reading, he shows interest in…

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    gothic short stories, Cask of Amontillado to The Fall of House Usher and Tell-Tale Heart, each unique in their own way as they have attracted more people to his books for over two centuries. In his short stories, Poe has shown numerous amounts of descriptive and unsettling imagery with different techniques, adding an eerie mood along with suspenseful syntax. Poe not only incorporates techniques such as unsettling imagery, but morbid diction as well, using them to their fullest to capture the…

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    yourself with some leaves. That’s how the cowboys and Indians did it.” (King, 30) Dialogue is a conversation between two or more characters. This is effective in Stephen King’s text…

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    In the poem, “For You” by Kim Addonizio, she uses situational irony and personification. Addonizio blends the two elements together to show how much she is in love with him. Adding her syntax and diction, Addonizio draws emphasis to what she is doing for love. To start, Addonizio gives a great descriptive of what she is doing for him. She says, “For you I undress down to the sheaths of my nerves.” Addonizio is telling her lover that, for only him, she will remove her outer layers of…

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    An example that combines repetition and paradox into one quote is when Orwell writes, “War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.” This phrase is used by Orwell many times in his story. In this phrase he connects contradictory ideas, such as war and peace. Most people understand that where there is a peace there is no…

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    There are many different reasons why people write; to express their inner thoughts, to deliver a message, to tell a story, to live forever, or just simply for entertainment. The reason for why I write is to become what I’m not. I want to be able to experience the thoughts and feelings of what others might be going through. I want to know how someone living in the 1500s might feel and I want to know how life is on a fictional world. Maybe it’s because I want some excitement in my life, maybe…

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    internal conflict, external conflicts because to stem as the result. For example, when Holden says that he will write a paper for Stradlater, he chooses to write about Allie’s baseball glove and then goes on to explain all about the glove and what makes it so special to him. He then says “It was a very descriptive subject. It really was. He was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it was the poems he wrote on the glove. You'd have liked him. He was such a great, terrifically…

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