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    The document discusses descriptive writing techniques. It provides two descriptions of an area beyond a bridge (Description A and Description B). Description B is more detailed and imaginative, using adjectives, personification, and mysterious language. The document encourages adding sentences that employ literary devices like similes and alliteration to engage the reader's imagination. Good descriptive writing uses techniques like these "building blocks" to enrich the picture formed in the reader's mind.

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    The document discusses descriptive writing techniques. It provides two descriptions of an area beyond a bridge (Description A and Description B). Description B is more detailed and imaginative, using adjectives, personification, and mysterious language. The document encourages adding sentences that employ literary devices like similes and alliteration to engage the reader's imagination. Good descriptive writing uses techniques like these "building blocks" to enrich the picture formed in the reader's mind.

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    The document discusses descriptive writing techniques. It provides two descriptions of an area beyond a bridge (Description A and Description B). Description B is more detailed and imaginative, using adjectives, personification, and mysterious language. The document encourages adding sentences that employ literary devices like similes and alliteration to engage the reader's imagination. Good descriptive writing uses techniques like these "building blocks" to enrich the picture formed in the reader's mind.

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    The document discusses descriptive writing techniques. It provides two descriptions of an area beyond a bridge (Description A and Description B). Description B is more detailed and imaginative, using adjectives, personification, and mysterious language. The document encourages adding sentences that employ literary devices like similes and alliteration to engage the reader's imagination. Good descriptive writing uses techniques like these "building blocks" to enrich the picture formed in the reader's mind.

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    Look at the picture

    again closely.
    Then read
    Description A &
    Description B.

    Description A

    Beyond the bridge is an old


    lock.

    Description B

    Beyond the low wooden bridge the old lock


    sleeps, forgotten and motionless as if
    trapped by the strange, haunting trees that
    surround it.

    Think about the


    descriptions. Which
    one do you like the
    best and why?

    Description A This is a very


    simple description, the reader
    does not have to think very much.
    It just tells you what is there.
    Beyond the wall is an old lock.

    Description B Here the writer


    has taken the simple description
    and added to it. Now the reader
    has to think and use imagination.
    Beyond the low, wooden bridge the old lock
    sleeps, forgotten and motionless as if trapped
    by the strange, haunting trees that surround it.

    Lets look more closely.

    Beyond the low,


    wooden bridge
    the old lock
    sleeps .
    Adjectives low, wooden and old - used
    to describe the bridge and the lock.
    Verb / Personification sleeps The
    writer has made the lock seem human.

    The writer has also used the word


    haunting.
    haunting suggests something
    mysterious or frightening.
    With this one word the writer has
    introduced a sense of mystery.
    Just what is happening in the
    picture?

    What else can the


    writer use?
    Lets add another
    sentence to
    Description B.

    Description B
    Beyond the low wooden bridge the old
    lock sleeps, forgotten and motionless
    as if trapped by the strange haunting
    trees that surround it. Their branches
    are like a tall giants fine fingers
    grasping at the walls.

    What has the


    writer used now?

    Their branches
    are like a tall
    giants fine,
    fingers grasping
    at the walls .
    Simile like the writer has said the subject is
    like something else. It adds to the picture in the
    readers imagination.

    Alliteration fine, fingers words with the


    same beginning sound used one after another.
    It sounds super!

    What makes good


    descriptive writing?
    In some ways it is like
    building a wall, the
    writer needs to use the
    right building blocks?

    These are just some of the


    building blocks!

    Similes
    Alliteration
    Personification
    Adjectives

    Now look at some different


    pictures of Fourteen Locks.
    Make a mind map of your ideas
    for description.
    Use your ideas to write
    exciting descriptive
    sentences.

    Remember to use the


    building blocks!

    Similes
    Alliteration
    Personification
    Adjectives

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