1. Descriptive Writing Style
Using the five senses…

2. Descriptive:
writing form in which the main objective is to engage the senses and convey the essence of a character and/or place rather than plot (as in a narrative) or ideas (as in an expository essay)

3. What must we learn… Terminology used on the provincial exam
Word association
Simile
Metaphor
Personification

4. What are the five senses…
Touch
Smell
Taste
Hear
See

6. Terminology used on the provincial exam

7. Touch (tactile)
:of, relating to, or being the sense of touch

8. Smell (olfactory)
: of or relating to the sense of smell

9. Hearing (aural)
:of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing

10. Sight (visual)
: of, relating to, or used in vision

11. Taste (gustatory)
: relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste

12. DESCRIBE THE FOLLOWING ONLY USING WORDS, NOT SENTENCES:

13. Aural

14. Visual

15. Gustatory

16. Olfactory

17. Tactile

18. For the next slide…
Use word association and come up with three words for each of the following categories… - Touch
Sight
Smell
Taste
Hear

20. Simile
: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by LIKE or AS

21. Example: Sleeping like a log

22. "Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong
"Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong." (slogan of Pan-American Coffee Bureau)
"Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." (Carl Sandburg)
"She dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat." (James Joyce, "The Boarding House")

23. Metaphor
: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them

24. Her home was a prison.

25. Her home was a prison.
In the above sentence, we understand immediately that her home had some of the characteristics of a prison. Mainly, we imagine, she could not leave her home. She was trapped inside. Why it was a prison we do not know, but that would be clear from the context--perhaps her husband forced her to stay at home, perhaps she was afraid of the outside. We don't know, but the rest of the story would tell us. What is important here is that in five simple words we understand a lot about her environment, how she felt and how she behaved. In this sentence, "prison" is a metaphor.

26. Personification
: attribution of personal qualities. representation of a thing or abstraction as a person OR Personification can be described as a figure of speech in which an inanimate object is personified, by attributing human traits and qualities to it.

27. "Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain quickly speckled the windscreen. "He turned on the wipers again, but they still refused to feel that the exercise was worthwhile, and scraped and squeaked in protest." (Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, 1988)

28. Your task…

29. Homework Assignment
Assume the role of one of the city reporters attending the hanging. Write in the third person and describe Smitty.
Within your writing, use imagery (at least one metaphor, simile or personification) to highlight three types of imagery: touch (tactile), smell (olfactory), hearing (aural), sight (visual), taste (gustatory)
Under-line it. One page typed double-spaced DUE MONDAY