DESCRIPTION PATTERN OF EXPOSITION

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DESCRIPTION PATTERN OF EXPOSITION

• AP LANG

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Describing places with tactile images

• with tactile imagery
• The steamy closeness of the Brazilian jungle

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Describe places with visual images

• The gray stone, narrow streets, tall houses and
  church spires of n Eastern European city Warsaw

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Describe places with auditory images

• The one-lungers throbbed and fluttered, and the
  twin-cylinder ones purred and purred, and that
  was a quiet sound, too. (EB White remembering
  outboard motors on his lake vacations)

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Describing places with gustatory images

• Theres a sunny corner in the kitchen where I
  always ate my toastgrilled in the oven,
  sometimes with cinnamon sugar and sometimes jam,
  but always the way my mother made it, buttered on
  both sides. (Joyce Maynards house)

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Describe places with olfactory images

• The acrid smell of a wood fire penetrated every
  inch of our campsite.

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You can create portraits of

• People
• Qualities
• Emotions
• Moods

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Create portraits of people through Description

• The victim is in good shape. He shivers
  slightly, although the trauma room is exceedingly
  warm. His face is bloodied, but shows no major
  lacerations. A third nurseasks the man a series
  of questionshe answers abruptly. He is drunk.
  (-George Simpson describing a patient at Bellevue
  ER)

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Describe the qualities of freedom

• How does this cartoonist describe freedom?
• What qualities of freedom is he implying if any?

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Describe freedoms qualities as depicted in this
image
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What are the qualities of a ghost town you would
use in a description?
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Describe an emotion

• What effects does anger have on behavior? (red
  face, clenched fists, teeth bared, eyebrows drawn
  together, stiffened body, etc)

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Describe a mood

• Rejoicing arms up and out, hands open, legs
  apart, head up, eyes on the sky, or maybe closed.

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Another mood to describe

• Sad

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When you use Description

• Remember your purpose
• Remember your audience
• Is the picture you are painting the most
  effective picture for your purpose and your
  audience?

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Descriptive writing follows one of two strategies

• In objective description, you aim at conveying
  detains of a subject thoroughly and accurately
  without suggesting your feelings or biases and
  without trying to evoke an emotional response
  from your readers.
• In subjective description, you make your values
  and feelings clear and often encourage readers to
  respond emotionally.

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DOMINANT IMPRESSION

• Successful subjective descriptions generally
  focus on a single dominant impression, which can
  act in place of a conclusions or thesis.
• To create a Dominant Impression, you select those
  details that will help create a mood or
  atmosphere or emphasize a feature or quality.

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DEVELOPING YOUR DESCRIPTION

• For scenes or objects
• What does it look like (colors, shapes, height,
  depth?)
• What does it sound like? (loud, soft, rasping,
  soothing, musical, like a lawn mower)?
• What does it smell like? (smoky, acrid, like
  gasoline, like soap, like a wood fire?)
• What does it feel like? (smooth, sticky, like a
  cats fur, like spiders web, like grease?)
• What does it taste like? (bitter, salty, like
  grass, like feathers?)

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DEVELOPING YOUR DESCRIPTION

• For emotions or ideas
• What effect does it have on behavior (anger red
  face, abrupt gestures?)
• What is it like (freedom like taking a deep
  breath of air after leaving a smoky room?)

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DEVELOPING YOUR DESCRIPTION

• For people
• What does the person look like (hair neatly
  combed, rumpled blouse, muddy boots?)
• What are some characteristic behaviors (rubs
  hands on skirt, picks ears?)
• What has the person done or said (cheated on a
  chem test, said cruel things to their teacher, ?
  ?)
• How do others respond to the person (turn to her
  for advice, call him a slob?)