Descriptive

Imagine I told you my character had dark hair and a mustache, would both of these people fit that description?

What more could we have said to differentiate?

​Imagery is descriptive language used by writers which evoke the 5 senses.

Sight: What you see

Auditory: What you can hear

Smell: What you can smell

Taste: What you can taste

Touch: What things feel like

The shirt sat on the table. 

How well did we describe the noun if I was looking at this image?

In order for you to properly describe what you're writing about, you need to use adjectives and adverbs.

Adjectives describe nouns. Adverbs describe verbs. 

​Adverbs of manner explain HOW a verb was done.

I’ll demonstrate a few right now.

I talked ____________________.

Give me an adverb of manner to describe my talking!

What do you notice about how the adverbs of manner end?

Do they always do this?

Mood is the feeling the reader gets while reading the story.

What is it?

When an author gives these hints, the reader feels suspense or tension because they are anticipating that an important event will happen soon.

Foreshadowing is when an author gives clues to hint at something that will happen later in the story. Sometimes, the clues are obvious, but other times, they are more subtle.