In descriptive essays, we use words to convey what something, or someone, a situation, an incident is like. Describing a thing is different from when you are evaluating. You are not arguing, interpreting or evaluating (judging). In descriptive essays, there is a lot of explanation of facts presented on things seen. Essays can be said to be descriptive when they present facts and ideas with little argument or interpretation.
Below is an example from Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie-
His aunty walked faster, his slippers making slap-slap sounds that echoed in the silent street. Ugwu wondered if she too could feel the coal tar getting hotter underneath, through her thin soles.——. He smelt something sweet, as they walked into a compound and was sure it came from the white flowers clustered on the bushes at the entrance. The bushes were shaped like slender hills. The lawn glistened, butterflies hovered around.
In the text above, you will notice that it is the actions of human beings that are described in the first part of the paragraph, not a location, while some plants were described in the later part. The narrative point of view is basically the third person singular- ‘he’ along with the invisible ‘they’ Describing the lawns further would bring in ‘it’ as a point of view.
CONCLUSION
In this article, we have talked about the descriptive method of writing essays. There is a common saying that –‘if you give a man a piece of fish, he will still be hungry but if you teach him/her to fish, he will never be hungry because you have shown him/her a means of livelihood’. That is why most of what has been described here is geared towards making you know how to write these essays and not giving you samples to cram.
Once you know the principles involved, you can always face any topic no matter how challenging. For you to be able to give vivid descriptions, you have to be observant and form the habit of giving attention to details. You have to create an impression by getting a point of view through which the narration will be done. Free writing helps you to start off if you are scared of where to start and free thinking for examinations and class assignments will help you organise your thought before putting them on paper.
In this article you learnt that:
- you should vividly describe the people, places, things, experiences, situations in your writing.
- for you to practice the art of description, you have to be involved yourself
- engage in close observation and be able to identify and name the things that you see, their placement or position where they are placed
- for you to be able to describe adequately, you need to engage in close observation and be able to identify and name the things that you see, their placement or position where they are placed
- do a close selection of the things you see and the ones you want to name and bring to focus so that they can match your narrative action
- having a point of view or creating one will make you actively participate in the story or narrative yourself
- practise free writing which is a way of expressing yourself
- description is used to create worlds for creative writing- such as literary journals, personal letters, stories and plays, travel accounts poetry and memoirs.
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