How to Write a Descriptive Essay

telling stories about how they killed Emmett. I highly recommend this book to people that are into murder stories. This book is very descriptive. Chris Crowe is very descriptive on how his mother was very worried about Emmett going to Mississippi to visit family, how Emmett approaches the cashier, and how he was murdered. Chris Crowe is a very good write because he is passionate about what he is writing about and gives great details. One example of how he is very descriptive is how he…

be seen when Warren writes, “she sat In front of the drugstore, sipping something Through a straw. There is nothing like Beauty. It stops your heart. It Thickens your blood. It stops your breath.” Here the ‘boy’ seems to be truly in love with the girl and also has the desire to speak to her but can’t seem to go to her. The anxiety he experiences is so fierce that he has to watch her from a distance in a ‘big black Buick’. Another example of tone is evident when Warren writes, ““But I know she…

not have distinguished, because it had its wings torn off and the body was disoriented. At that point, Anne Dillard takes us to a time in the past where she went camping and had the experience to see how moths look when they are in a decaying state. Furthermore, through vivid imagery and descriptive language, Anne Dillard’s “The Death of a Moth” proposes that death, on even such an insignificant lifeform, can be a beautiful event. Most noticeably, Dillard uses vivid imagery in her work “The…

Why the Caged Bird Sings”, Maya Angelou primarily choose to use the descriptive and argumentative modes of discourse; these two modes proved effective within her work to truly immerse the reader and to change the reader’s mindset as they continued to read her memoir. Maya Angelou, a composer of numerous beautiful poems, had a way with her words that sparked emotions on those who beheld her work and she displayed her descriptive abilities within the pages of, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”.…

of Fredrick Douglass, Fredrick Douglass gives his personal perspective on how it is to be a slave in America. Douglass is very descriptive in his narrative, he names plenty of owners, places, and names of people who he once associated with on plantations. Narrative of Life of Fredrick Douglass, is a very significant novel in American history, we can learn slave’s personal experience with slavery, and the novel also shows how slavery was constructed during…

This book did not really hit home for me until I went to Cesar Chaves Elementary School. I saw first hand how evident these ideas of “playing school” and holding students back from expressing their cultural identity. This belittles the student in the classroom, telling them that their culture is not as important as “white culture” creating a bigger divide between students and the administration team of schools. To help bridge that gap, students should have a safe place to practice their first…

the descriptive paragraph as an example of an acquired style choice. With my proposing a solution essay, “combatting absenteeism” I moved some paragraphs around to make the problem of absenteeism more clearly brought to the reader’s attention. While moving paragraphs around, I added transitions and made others read smoother so the essay flowed interruption free like a song. To meet the MLA requirements I fixed any errors in my work-cited page as well. This essay was my favorite essay to write…

this being, “The artist has now laid his colors, sprayed them with dew. The Eleocharis sod, greener than ever is now spangled with blue mimulus, pink dragon-head, and the milk-white blooms of Sagittaria (52).” This is just a small taste of the descriptive poetic style Leopold uses. Through this, a reader can feel absorbed in the beauty of nature that is surrounding the writer while he describes the…

In Lady Lazarus quite a few literary devices are used. One of the devices used, that stood out to me was imagery. Imagery is visually descriptive or figurative language. Throughout the poem, Plath used imagery to set the tone of the poem and to make the meaning of the poem stronger. I believe she wanted the tone of the poem to be glum, and depressing and there are many instances in where she uses imagery to get that point across. I think the meaning of the poem is that it is about death or…

zoo, helped me realized how fun and full of learning experiences the students can take out from the zoo. I feel that in the future I will take my future students to the zoo so they can experience observing the different animals that the zoo bring to us to view. The zoo has a lot of exotic…