描述性英语作文写作技巧(雅思必备).
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Writing Techniques 5
Description
Description
Description is the kind of writing that intends
to convey a mental image of some scene, place, object or person through a verbal account of their appearances, actions, movements or changes. At its simplest, description is a word picture of someone or something. Description can be classified into four categories:
Arrange the details in spatiwenku.baidu.coml order o
Make the description vivid o
Using sensory words
Through the open window blew the air of the
August afternoon. Through the open window blew the sweet, scented, sun-warm air of the August afternoon. The room seems dark, and small. The dark green walls and dirty white ceiling make the room dark, and thus even smaller than it is. As you walk into the room, you are stopped short by a bed which fills half of the room. The two large windows over the bed are dimmed by heavy dark gold drapes. There is a small metal desk opposite the bed. Wedged in between the bookcase and the wall opposite the bed is a small gray metal desk. It has a brown wooden chair which h seems to fill
How did the writer make his description?
Establish a dominant impression o
A usual practice in writing a description is to begin it with a general statement which establishes the dominant impression of the place and then organize all the details around this focus. Usually, we describe the most striking object in the place first, and then describe the other objects in relation to it, or we may describe the place from top to bottom, left to right, near to far, east to west, centre to periphery, outside to inside, etc., or vice versa. Using sensory words
Using figures of speeches
Personification
The other houses of the street, conscious of
decent lives within them, gaze at one another with brown calm faces. Simile The creek in the middle of it wound back on itself like a snake. After a breathless rush to the station, I found my train crammed like sardines. Metaphor Through the other window was glimpsed a distance blue sea, on which floats the island,
Animating the lifeless
Standing up, I can feel the sun’s rays on my
pale skin. The wind blows softly and makes my hair untidy. Standing up, I can feel the sun’s ray embrace my pale skin. The wind blows softly and tousles my hair away fro my face.
A person o An object o A place o A scene
o
How to describe a place
Describing a place is like drawing a picture of
it. A complete description of a place may include information about its location, surroundings, and appearance. Sometimes, it is also necessary to provide some background information, for example, its history or its political and economic position.
Description
Description
Description is the kind of writing that intends
to convey a mental image of some scene, place, object or person through a verbal account of their appearances, actions, movements or changes. At its simplest, description is a word picture of someone or something. Description can be classified into four categories:
Arrange the details in spatiwenku.baidu.coml order o
Make the description vivid o
Using sensory words
Through the open window blew the air of the
August afternoon. Through the open window blew the sweet, scented, sun-warm air of the August afternoon. The room seems dark, and small. The dark green walls and dirty white ceiling make the room dark, and thus even smaller than it is. As you walk into the room, you are stopped short by a bed which fills half of the room. The two large windows over the bed are dimmed by heavy dark gold drapes. There is a small metal desk opposite the bed. Wedged in between the bookcase and the wall opposite the bed is a small gray metal desk. It has a brown wooden chair which h seems to fill
How did the writer make his description?
Establish a dominant impression o
A usual practice in writing a description is to begin it with a general statement which establishes the dominant impression of the place and then organize all the details around this focus. Usually, we describe the most striking object in the place first, and then describe the other objects in relation to it, or we may describe the place from top to bottom, left to right, near to far, east to west, centre to periphery, outside to inside, etc., or vice versa. Using sensory words
Using figures of speeches
Personification
The other houses of the street, conscious of
decent lives within them, gaze at one another with brown calm faces. Simile The creek in the middle of it wound back on itself like a snake. After a breathless rush to the station, I found my train crammed like sardines. Metaphor Through the other window was glimpsed a distance blue sea, on which floats the island,
Animating the lifeless
Standing up, I can feel the sun’s rays on my
pale skin. The wind blows softly and makes my hair untidy. Standing up, I can feel the sun’s ray embrace my pale skin. The wind blows softly and tousles my hair away fro my face.
A person o An object o A place o A scene
o
How to describe a place
Describing a place is like drawing a picture of
it. A complete description of a place may include information about its location, surroundings, and appearance. Sometimes, it is also necessary to provide some background information, for example, its history or its political and economic position.