Exercise two pages # 38 ENG 82A

Exercise two pages # 38
Here are the goal, characteristics, and the uses of the description.
Goal:
Descriptive writing vividly portrays a person, place, or thing in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s experience.
Characteristics:
The general characteristics of descriptive writing include:
· elaborate use of sensory language
· rich, vivid, and lively detail
· figurative language such as simile, hyperbole, metaphor, symbolism and personification
· showing, rather than telling through the use of active verbs and precise modifiers
Uses:
Descriptive writing appears almost everywhere and is often included in other genre, such as in a descriptive introduction of a character in a narrati