Writing Two

Writing Assignment Two:

Descriptive Writing

In class, we will discuss the use of literary devices to give your writing your own personal style. In a discriptive writing piece, I should be able to feel as if I just experienced your story. You will convey the feelings of the five senses: touch, sight, sound, smell and taste, as well as use interesting ways to describe them.

Although this list is not at all exhaustive, the most common literary devices are:
simile
metaphor
alliteration
onomatopoeia
rhyme
rhythm
personification
oxymoron
pun
imagery
mood (not a device, but must be established in any good descriptive writing!)

To help you get started, consider using one of these topics off this list:
Your bedroom
Your grandparents' house
Your favorite vacation spot
A stressful moment

Note: This writing is different from your autobiography. There does not need to be movement in it that tells a beginning, middle and end. Instead, you are making a scene or emotion come alive by describing it. There does not need to be a plot in a short descriptive piece, but the tools you learn here can be used in stories which all have plots.