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
- To entertain
- To persuade
Details / descriptive language -> CONVEY impressions or ideas when selected strategically
SHOWING vs Telling
CONNOTATION vs Denotation
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