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    Chapter 9

    Description: Presenting

    Impressions

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    Purpose

    Sometimes stands alone example inadvertisements

    Sometimes enriches other writing examplein telling us more about a subject or object

    such asEliza Bliss was a tall, lean, skinny, yellow, toothless, bald-headed, rat-eyed

    professional liar and scoundrel . ( Mark Twains Agent)

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    Sensory Impression

    Details that appeal to each of the five

    senses Sight

    Sound

    Smell

    Touch

    Taste

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    Sensory Impressions

    The sound of hot dogs sizzling on agrease-spattered grill gave way to thewhirling buzz of a cotton-candy machine.

    We watched as the white cardboard conewas slowly transformed into a pink, fluffycloud. The sticky puffs dissolved on mytongue into a sugar-like sweetness. Thesalty smell of kettle corn lingered in the air.

    Class Exercise:

    Working in pairs relate each sentence to the sensory impression(s)

    expressed. Underline the words that lead you to the sensory impressions

    you discover.

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    Working in pairs describe the scene in the picture in four to five sentences.

    Each group will share with the class.

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    Dominant Impression

    Descriptions evoke an overall mood or

    feeling such as joy, anger, terror, grief

    Answers questions about the subject orpredicate Who? What? Where? How?

    Example: The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck.

    The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on

    the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face

    and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords.

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    Vantage Point

    Fixed Vantage Point

    - Observer does not moveEx. view from your bedroom window,

    view from a park bench

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    Fixed Observer

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A373_Wk-g

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    Vantage Point

    Moving vantage pointEx. view from a moving train, walking

    through mall

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    Moving Observerhttp://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Samantha_Brown/Video/Sam_Tours_Cozumel

    _By_Segway

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    Vantage Point

    Describe only what you can see from yourvantage point.

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    Selection and Arrangement of

    Details Select the details that point toward the

    main impression or mood you intend to

    create.

    Arrange the details in a time sequence or

    some spatial arrangement, from left to

    right, from top to bottom, etc.

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    Writing a Description

    What do I want to accomplish?

    What dominant impression will I develop?

    What sequence should I follow inpresenting my impressions?

    Am I overloading with adjectives?

    Ex. A dented, cylindrical, silver-gray, foul-

    smelling, overloaded trash can sat in thealley.

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    Class Discussion

    Purpose

    Sensory Impressions: details that appeal

    to each of the five senses Dominant Impression

    Vantage Point

    Arrangement of Details