Descriptive techniques
Some descriptive techniques include:
- Imagery: Using sensory language to create mental pictures for the reader
- Simile: Comparing one thing to another using "like" or "as"
- Metaphor: Describing one thing as if it were another
- Personification: Giving human qualities to non-human objects or animals
- Alliteration: Repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words
- Onomatopoeia: Using words that imitate sounds
- Hyperbole: Exaggerating for dramatic effect
- Symbolism: Using objects or images to represent abstract ideas
- Descriptive language: Using adjectives and adverbs to describe characters, settings, and actions in detail.