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Descriptive Writing
Descriptive Writing
Don’t tell me SHOW me
Describe this Picture
Nouns/Verbs/Adjectives/Adverbs/• Standing• Overlooking• Peering• Growing• Concrete• Darkness• Grey• Black• Dead• Eerie-eerily• Silent-silently• Isolated• Desolate• Scary- scarily• Uninviting• Hauntingly seductive• Creepy-creepily• Rotting wood
Start your description
• The house stood on concrete steps. When I looked at it I felt scared…
OR
• Standing on a mass of cold, concrete steps, the sight of the deserted mansion sent chills through my spine…
Which example is more interesting?
Personification
• ‘The wind stood up and gave a shout’(James Stephens, ‘The Wind’)
• ‘Grafton Street is yawning, waking limb by limb…’ (Michael O Siadhail, ‘Morning on Grafton Street’)
Personify it:
• Give it human persona: – Windows are dark, staring black eyes…– The door, large and wide, a preying mouth
waiting in silence to gobble you up…
Similes
• Her eyes were like beaming lights…
• His eyes were as black as coal…
• Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep…
• As blind as a bat…
• They fought like cats and dogs
Describe the inside of the house:
• flickering lights• murky darkness• decaying plaster• rust and rot• aged crates and chains• dark shadows• cold brick and cobblestones• dim graveyard• old and creepy• sensory overload • Creepy eyes• Thick cobwebs
Imagine you are entering the house:Describe the inside of the house
Write 10 sentences about itRemember your senses!
Don’t tell me SHOW me
Write your own Story
• Include a scary house.• First person narrative…You are a character in the story• Try to begin sentences with active verbs (e.g standing,
looking etc…).• Avoid constantly using ‘I’.• Plan your work:
– Plot (main points of what will happen in the story-beginning, middle and end).
– Verbs/Adjectives/ Adverbs.– Describe the scene.– How did it make you feel?– Don’t forget the senses- Sight/Smell/Sound/Taste/Touch.– Be imaginative!
Bibliography
• Images used from:– Clipart via powerpoint– http://www.wpclipart.com/phps.php?q=
smiley+faces
• Poetry examples:– James Stephens, ‘The Wind’– Michael O Siadhail, ‘Morning on Grafton
Street’)