1. What is the secret of effective descriptions?
How do you describe seeing, hearing, touching, tasting?

2. Effective description:
Creates sharply etched word pictures of objects, persons, scenes, events, or situations
What are the elements of description?
How do you convey sensory impressions-reflecting sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch?

3. Elements of description:
Purpose --Some descriptions merely create images and mood, but description can also stimulate understanding or lead to action
Sensory impressions –begin with close physical or mental observation --when you can’t find the right words, try a comparison
Dominant impression --an overall mood or feeling such as joy, anger, terror, or distaste
Vantage point --fixed/moving
Selection of details -- effective description depends as much on exclusion as on inclusion
Arrangement of details--clear pattern of organization

4. Gargantua Erasmus

5. Ovid, Metamorphoses