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| convey a highly personal view of your subject and seek to elicit a strong emotional response from your reader |
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| the expression, in vivid language, of what the five senses experience |
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| describe the subject in a straight-forward and literal way, w/o revealing your attitude or feelings; to inform |
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| Strategies for using description in an essay |
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1)Focus a descriptive essay around a dominant expression
2)Select the details to include
3)Organize the descriptive details
4)Use vivid sensory language and varied sentence structure |
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| The ____ of a subjective description is determined by your purpose, your attitude towards the subject, and the reader response you wish to evoke. |
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| positive, negative, or neutral |
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| Description: A Prewriting Checklist |
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1) Choose a subject to describe.
2) Determine your purpose, audience, tone, and point of view.
3) Use prewriting to determine details about the subject. |
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| Focus the thesis on the __________________. |
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| What does Marie Martinez describe? |
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| What does Maya Angelou describe? |
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