Is there a website where I can find examples of descriptive writing?
Descriptive writing vividly portrays a person, place, or thing in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s experience. The general characteristics of descriptive writing include: elaborate use of sensory language rich, vivid, and lively detail figurative language such as simile, hyperbole, metaphor, symbolism and personification showing, rather than telling through the use of active verbs and precise modifiers Examples are here: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/c… more about descriptive writing here: http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpe… http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/g… h