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Descriptive writing focuses on creating vivid imagery through sensory details, allowing readers to experience a scene rather than just read about it. Effective planning involves selecting a subject, determining the mood, and utilizing the five senses. Key writing tools include adjectives, similes, metaphors, personification, and powerful verbs, with a structured approach of introduction, body paragraphs, and a strong conclusion.

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Descriptive Writing Notes Grade8

Descriptive writing focuses on creating vivid imagery through sensory details, allowing readers to experience a scene rather than just read about it. Effective planning involves selecting a subject, determining the mood, and utilizing the five senses. Key writing tools include adjectives, similes, metaphors, personification, and powerful verbs, with a structured approach of introduction, body paragraphs, and a strong conclusion.

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Descriptive Writing

1. What is Descriptive Writing?


- Writing that paints a picture with words.
- Makes the reader see, hear, smell, taste, and feel the scene.
- Focus is on atmosphere and detail, not storytelling.

2. How to Plan
 Choose what to describe: place, person, object, or event.

 Decide the mood (happy, peaceful, scary, busy, lonely).

 Think of 5 senses:
Sight – What do you see?
Sound – What do you hear?
Smell – What’s in the air?
Taste – Any flavours?
Touch – What do you feel?

3. Writing Tools
- Adjectives & Adverbs → colourful details (“glowing softly”, “rough stone”).

- Similes & Metaphors → comparisons (“the sky was like cotton candy”).

- Personification → give life to objects (“the trees whispered”).

- Powerful Verbs → stronger action (“waves crashed” not “waves hit”).

4. Structure
🔹 Introduction → Set the scene + mood.
🔹 Body Paragraphs → Describe one sense or detail at a time.
🔹 Ending → Leave a strong final image or feeling.

5. Golden Rule
Show, don’t tell

Example 1:

Telling: The garden was beautiful.

Showing : Roses leaned gently on the fence, their petals unfolding like soft flames.
Example 2

Telling: The girl was happy.

Showing: Her smile stretched so wide it seemed to light up her whole face, and her eyes
sparkled like stars.

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