Descriptive writing

• The five senses are sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.
• Descriptive writing is the use of words to create vivid images, emotions, or sensations.
• Similes compare two things using "like" or "as."
• Metaphors make comparisons without using "like" or "as," implying an analogy between two seemingly unrelated objects.
• Onomatopoeia imitates sounds with words that resemble them.
• Personification gives human qualities to non-human entities.
• Alliteration uses repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.