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Examples Help!
What is the
definition of a Descriptive Paragraph?
How do you define this type of paragraph? What is the definition of Descriptive Paragraphs? The
definition of a descriptive paragraph is as follows:
English Grammar
Definition of a Descriptive Paragraph |
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Definition:
A paragraph may be defined as a group of sentences
that are closely related in thought and which serve
one common purpose.
Descriptive paragraphs are often used to describe:
What a person looks like and acts like
What a place looks like
What an object looks like |
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Definition of a Descriptive Paragraphs |
Examples Help! Descriptive Paragraphs
Good
descriptive paragraphs provide the reader with an accurate
mental picture of the subject of the paragraph whether it is a
person, a place or an object.
Examples Help -
Writing a Descriptive Paragraph
Writing a descriptive paragraph becomes easier with practice.
Write an example of this type of paragraph, describing a subject
that you know very well - yourself! Use the following hints and
guidelines to help you with writing a paragraph about yourself.
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First
Sentence of a paragraph - Introduce yourself - make it
interesting by including a nickname or a family name
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Middle
Sentences - These provide information about yourself
with supporting details, facts and information
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Age, star
sign, personality
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Size, color
and shape
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Styles and
colors of clothes - why you like them
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Pastimes -
music, movies, hobbies etc.
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Final
sentence - The last sentence should enforce the main
idea of the paragraph - who you are!
Examples Help -
Descriptive Paragraph Example
An excellent
Descriptive Paragraph Example follows, from a short story called
A Christmas Tree written by Charles Dickens:
"I have been looking
on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round
that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted
in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above
their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little
tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright
objects. There were rosy-cheeked dolls, hiding behind the green
leaves; and there were real watches (with movable hands, at
least, and an endless capacity of being wound up) dangling from
innumerable twigs; there were French-polished tables, chairs,
bedsteads, wardrobes, eight-day clocks, and various other
articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made, in tin, at
Wolverhampton)"...
This choice of the Dickens paragraph example was chosen as an
interesting description of an object. |
