Writing skills: Using rhetorical devices
- Simile: Is a way of comparing two things using like, as or as ….... as
Examples:
1. Some robots will look and sound very like humans, because technology will have advanced a great deal.
2. Treatment and medicines will taste as delicious as real food.
- Metaphor: Is a way of comparing two things without using like or as
Example:
The world will be at your fingertips.
- Onomatopoeia: Is the name given to words that sound like the noises they represent.
Example:
Everywhere we go we will hear the constant buzz and hum of technology.
- Personification: is giving human characteristics to an object.
Examples:
The sun shone warm and welcoming.
Our computers and mobile phones will take care of us, by telling us when to wake up, eat and sleep.
- Sensory descriptions are any descriptions that appeal to the five senses of touch, smell, taste, sight or hearing.
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Sample descriptive essay (activity book 74)
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Worldwide transport in the future It is of course difficult to say exactly what transportation will look like in the future, because of the infrastructural changes that are happening constantly at the moment. To me, it seems that transport may well have changed a lot in one hundred years' time. Perhaps there will be no more private transport by 2115 CE. It is possible that public transport will have improved so much that no one will need their own cars. We might all be zooming around in ecologically-sound electric buses and trams that will take us to our destinations smoothly! In order to get to other countries, we will be taking airships, which will be like aeroplanes but with more facilities available. It will be possible to travel to the other side of the world in much less time because these airships will race around at a far greater velocity. Finally, modes of transport are always changing, depending on many different factors, but one thing is certain; we will still be travelling the whole world! Life is a journey, and the possibilities for travel keep growing We might even be able to experience weightlessness by travelling to space! |
Introduction: Make a general statement, then state your opinion
Body: Describe some aspects of the essay topic, dividing the material between paragraphs, depending on your focus.
Conclusion: Summarise your descriptions and relate them back to the introduction.
Examples from the essay
Onomatopoeia: We might all be zooming around in ecologically-sound electric buses and trams.
Personification: buses and trams that will take us to our destinations smoothly!
Simile: which will be like aeroplanes
Metaphor: Life is a journey
Writing a descriptive essay
Tips:
The type of writing here is a descriptive essay. A descriptive essay describes an object, a person, a place, an experience, a situation, etc.
Descriptive essays involve clear writing and a good understanding of the audience for whom one is writing.
Elicit some aspects of future lifestyles, beginning with medical advances, and expanding it
Example: People will work in virtual offices, which are like holographic displays, at home.
Writing Strategies
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Writing a single paragraph When you are writing a single paragraph, consider the following:
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Writing: Page 25, exercises 7 and 8
7 Edit the following text. There are two grammar mistakes and three spelling mistakes. Find and correct them.
| In the near future, a new ‘bionic eye’ will have helped people with failing eyesite to see again. A devise inside the eye picks up an image from a small camera attached to a pair of sunglasses and send it to the brian, which interprets it as vision. |
Answers
1 will help 2 eyesight 3 device 4 sends 5 brain
8 Describe Jordan in the next century. What do you think it will look like? What will people be doing? What will life be like? Use the rhetorical devices in exercise 10, page 23 and write 200 words.
Suggested answer
Jordan in the next century will witness considerable changes that might make it different from Jordan today. The population will probably reach 50 million people. So we might see skyscrapers that are higher than the clouds. We will hear the constant buzz and hum of technology in the streets of Amman and all other towns. By the next century, Jordan will have become the most developed country in the region. Jordan will probably become like Japan in the future. The streets will have become wider and busier because the population will be so huge.