Narrative Writing: The Elements Of Descriptive Writing

Descriptive writing is a literary device in which the author uses details to paint a picture with their words. This process will provide readers with descriptions of people, places or objects by using details. Sensory imagery is created with details that help the reader see, smell, hear, taste, and feel (tangibly) things without actually experiencing them. It can also create thermal images and images relating to movement. These types of images are a collection of images that are created in your head from detailed descriptions in poetry and prose. The author will use sensory details to enhance the reading experience. If it is done effectively, the reader will be able to participate better in the story and engage in it personally. These techniques

The description of the scenery offered me the possibility of placing the action in a certain century, year or maybe month. It also helped me feel whatever the character involved felt such as the cold if it was winter or autumn and the warmth if it was spring or autumn. Such elements are very important to the reader because no matter if we enjoy the book or not, we could talk about it in the future and maybe give a strong opinion on it. Although people mostly read a book for the action it relates, giving details keeps the reader in suspense and they will develop interest as they

Inside, the students are welcomed into a vast enclave full of intellectual treasures and secret passageways. It takes the students forever just to figure out where to go. There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones, narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a

Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump. […] It was also very hard to remember where anything was, because it all seemed to move around a lot.

The halls are full of classrooms, secret corridors, and trapdoors, and some parts of the castle are even forbidden. And yet, Harry feels at home here in ways he never did at the

Dursleys' house, eating the best food and having the best experiences of his life. (Rowling,