Descriptive essay
build your descriptive essay by using the outline below to generate ideas. add topic and subtopics to expand
your thinking
l subject
a topic
what event item or person do you wish to describe?
b. dominate impression
what one mood or quality do you wish to create for the audience?
c. thesis statement
what specifically will you "show" the audience? how will you make the audience aware of your
dominate impression in the thesis statement?
d. format
will your descriptive essay be subjective or objective? describe the topic using each of the five
senses
1. subjective
a. see
b. smell
c. hear
d. feel
e. taste
2. objective
a. see
b. smell
c. hear
d. feel
e taste

Read the following excerpt from "harrison bergeron" by kurt vonnegut: he tried to think a little about the ballerinas. they weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. they were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. george was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. but he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts. what message about the role of media is best supported in this excerpt? a. media are the reason george is able to watch ballet. b. media change people's values, making them more selfish. c. media tend to make audiences' worldviews the same. d. media can be used to distract audiences from the truth.