description class overview

Chapter 8 : Description

Definition:  a picture of words (a word-picture)

-         Giving detail, to visualize (*), to engage the five senses – sensory detail

• o  Sight / to see, smell / to smell, touch / to feel, taste / to taste, sound / to hear

 

Purpose:

-         To understand

• o  To problem solve, to educate, to teach

-         To share writer’s experience (to solicit empathy)

• o  To help audience relate,

-         To visualize

-         To engage / to envelope / to immerse

• o  Maintain interest

-         To entertain

-         To persuade

 

Details / descriptive language -> CONVEY impressions or ideas when selected strategically

 

SHOWING vs Telling

CONNOTATION vs Denotation