Below are pictures of beautiful sceneries from all over the world. Select one picture and write one paragraph that aptly and creatively describes the scenery.

 


 

Examine the poem below. Can you identfiy the device used to make the poem very descriptive? How many of the device can be found in the poem? Name at least two other literary devices that can be used as descriptive devices. For each, provide an example.

Harlem

By Langston Hughes 1902–1967 Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

      Does it dry up

      like a raisin in the sun?

      Or fester like a sore—

      And then run?

      Does it stink like rotten meat?

      Or crust and sugar over—

      like a syrupy sweet?

      Maybe it just sags

      like a heavy load.

      Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes, “Harlem” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted with the permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

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Source: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Random House Inc., 1990)

Here is a picture of Yendi Phiilps. Try to describe her features. Remember to use your adjectives and adverbs.

How do you feel about descriptive writing?