Most forms of writing involve description. For example, in a short story characters and places need to feel real for the reader. Description of events, feelings and atmosphere helps to achieve this.

There is a fundamental difference between emotional language and descriptive language. Emotional language tends to be very dramatic, strong, intense, and passionate. Descriptive language is rational, ...

A man uses descriptive language to report a sighting of the Loch Ness monster to a police officer. Interesting and poetic dialect describes what he saw and similes are used to create an impact with ...