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Composition 1 Flash cards
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Undergraduate 1
06/10/2009

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Subjective Description
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convey a highly personal view of your subject and seek to elicit a strong emotional response from your reader
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Description
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the expression, in vivid language, of what the five senses experience
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Objective Description
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describe the subject in a straight-forward and literal way, w/o revealing your attitude or feelings; to inform
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Strategies for using description in an essay
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1)Focus a descriptive essay around a dominant expression
2)Select the details to include
3)Organize the descriptive details
4)Use vivid sensory language and varied sentence structure
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Tone
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The ____ of a subjective description is determined by your purpose, your attitude towards the subject, and the reader response you wish to evoke.
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Denotative
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Dictionary definition
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Connotative
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positive, negative, or neutral
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Description: A Prewriting Checklist
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1) Choose a subject to describe.
2) Determine your purpose, audience, tone, and point of view.
3) Use prewriting to determine details about the subject.
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Dominant Impression
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Focus the thesis on the __________________.
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What does Marie Martinez describe?
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A salt marsh
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What does Maya Angelou describe?
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Sister flowers
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