Descriptive Outline:
Use this outline to write your descriptive essay about your pet or favorite place.
I. Introduction:
A. Background info
B. Physical description- sight
C. Detail #1 of what you see_______________________________ Give an example
D. Detail #2 of what you see______________________________Give an example
F. Prepositional phrase to show spatial organization_________________________
II. First Sense: Choose sight, sound, feel, taste, or smell________________
A. First detail you are going to describe____________________________
B. Incident__________________________________
C. Second detail_________________________________________________
D. Incident_______________________________
E. Third detail____________________________________________________
F. Incident_______________________________
III. Second Sense: ________________________________________________
A. First detail you are going to describe______________________________
B. Incident______________________________________________________
C. Second detail you are going to describe__________________________
D. Incident____________________________________________________
E. Third detail you are going to describe___________________________
F. Incident_____________________________________________________
IV. Third Sense of unforgettable memory________________________________________________
A. First detail you are going to describe_______________________________
B. Incident_______________________________________________________
C. Second detail you are going to describe____________________________
D. Incident______________________________________________________
E. Third detail you are going to describe_____________________________
F. Incident______________________________________________________
V. Conclusion:
A. Give the Aura of the whole place that you are describing.
B. Give a general and specific feeling and summarize what is special about it.
C. Include a memory or experience that happened there.
NOTE: Description uses adjectives, similes, metaphors, and personifications.
Putting the description into an incident means what you “do” with the person/place related to that sensory detail. This is “showing and not telling.” You describe by using senses and then you show how that works in real life.