Example of a Descriptive Essay

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…

book before Steven Spielberg made it into a movie. “Jaws” the book was very famous it sold about 20 million copies, this famous book is about a killer shark in a seaside resort in Long Island in Amity. Benchley has a very unique style he is very descriptive and catches the reader's attention with ease, gets their blood pumping and leaves them on the edge of their seat. Peter Benchley is a very interesting writer he is the type of…

Roald Dahl used several interesting craft moves in his story “The Landlady”. One craft move was when they used descriptive words and sentences. Another was short and long sentences. Finally Roald Dahl utilized tone to develop his theme that things aren't always as they appear and be aware of your surroundings. Roald Dahl made good use of descriptive words and sentences. One example of this is when he stated, “But now, even in the darkness, he could see that the paint was peeling from the…

similar and different ways of expressing tones. Both Woolf's and Petrunkevitch's writing styles are similar. They both use descriptive imagery and details. Some examples of this in Petrunkevitch's essay are "the exasperated spider" and "soft membrane". Another example, this time in Woolf's essay, is "hay-coloured wings, fringed with a tassel of the same colour". These descriptive words not only help the reader understand the subject matter more, but also affect the tone of the essay.…