DESCIPTIPVE WRITING

Descriptive Writing

The general characteristics of descriptive writing include:

1.elaborate use of sensory language

2.rich, vivid, and lively detail

3.figurative language such as simile, hyperbole, metaphor, symbolism and personification

4.showing, rather than telling through the use of active verbs and precise modifiers

Descriptive writing appears almost everywhere and is often included in other genre, such as in a descriptive introduction of a character in a narrative.