1. “How would you describe the color red to a blind man?”
Description
“How would you describe the color red to a blind man?”

2. Description What makes an essay memorable?
How can you engage the reader’s imagination?
How can you vividly convey a setting, a person, an object,or a situation?

3. Description Description appeals to the 5 senses: Sight Sound Taste
Touch
Smell
No, ESP is not one of them!

4. Description
Winter brings blizzards, hot tornadic winds arise in the spring, and in the summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. The grass turns brittle and brown and it cracks beneath your feet. There are green belts along the rivers and creeks, linear groves of hickory and pecan, willow and witch hazel. At a distance in July or August the steaming foliage seems almost to writhe in fire. Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up with the corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in plenty of time.

5. Description Tips for writing descriptive essays:
Ask yourself “What is the purpose of my essay? How will description further advance my purpose?”
Write sentences that appeal to the five senses (although not all of them may be applicable at the same time)

6. Description Tips continued:
Use adjectives (descriptive words) to further modify an object.
When the word “house” is used, we each have a different mental image. Therefore, using adjectives can help guide the reader towards imagining the house you (the writer) has in mind.
The little, red, ramshackle, two-story house is surrounded by knee-high, withered grass and a broken-down, unpainted wooden fence.

7. Description Tips continued:
Adverbs are also used to modify words—verbs,adjectives, and other adverbs.
The track start raced half-heartedly to the finish line.
The extremely over-dressed girl felt out of place at the barbecue.

8. Description Tips continued:
Employ figurative language such as metaphors and similes in order to stimulate the imagination and leave a lasting impression on your reader.
Love is like a red, red rose.
She is as skinny as a rail.