Exam 23: Writing With Examples Illustration

To paint a verbal picture of something means to ______________ it.

Description is a necessary ingredient in almost any writing assignment.

It is best to generalize details when describing a scene to someone who isn't there or can't see it.

Descriptive writing relies on specific words and sensory details.

Descriptions are often organized spatially.

When it comes to description, there is no such thing as too many details.

Including thoughts and emotions strengthens subjective descriptions.

The more specific the word, the clearer the image.

An effective way to arrange the details of a descriptive paragraph is _________, or from one point in space to another.

When you are describing a house, it is best to write about the entire house rather than one room.

To focus a descriptive paragraph, writers bring specific words, sensory details, thoughts, and feelings together to form a dominant impression.

When you are writing about a place, it is best to pick a place that you have not visited and do not know much about.

The overall feeling that gives a picture a purpose is called the dominant impression.

Words that are relatively general belong to a small word grouping.

Each time you give a(n) _________ name to something, you further limit the group to which it belongs.

Vivid descriptions call for specific words and sensory details.

Writing is complete before it has been revised and carefully edited.

A thesis statement in a descriptive essay should include the place/person/object and dominant impression

Which of the following words is NOT an example of a space and time transition?

A description within a passage does not need to have a point as long as you use specific words and sensory details in the passage.