Descriptive Essay Exercise

English 28 

Name: ______________________ Instructor: T. Amano-Tompkins 

Date: ________________________ Descriptive Writing Exercises 

Part I - Rewrite each sentence to make the description more vivid. Hint: Choose more specific words and add details. 

1. The car alarm made a lot of noise and woke us up. 

2. When I saw what they did to my car,I was mad. 

3. The smell of the food made his mouth water. 

4. They cleaned the dirty kitchen until it looked good again. Part II – Use figurative language as directed below. 

1. Use a simile to describe your favorite kind of weather. 

2. Use a simile to describe someone famous. 

3. Use a metaphor to describe someone you know. 

4. Use a metaphor to  describe yourself in a bad mood. 

5. Use personification to describe something that scares you. 

6. Use personification to describe something in nature.