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Description : Objective and Subjective Objective Description ● Describes an object, place, or person with factual details ● A dictionary-type definition that describes the thing as it is ● Avoids any type of personal opinions or feelings in the description ● Description used best for academic, professional, scientific writing ● Considers the object being described as the key

Objective Description: An Example UN aid officials report that the drought has exacerbated the famine. Farms and cattle ranches have failed. Food production has virtually ceased.

Subjective Description ● Includes a personal reaction through feelings or mood ● Seeks to create a powerful impression ● Considers the connotation of the word and the way a reader would feel while reading it ● Includes emotional language that would appeal to the reader ● Considers the subject writing the description as the key

Sensory details are details we ● See ● Smell ● Touch

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● Taste ● hear

Subjective Description: An Example The once fertile valley is now a dusty moonscape of dry riverbeds, broken earth, and skeletons. Hundreds of men and women die of thirst, hunger, and disease in the heat and dust of the hopeless refuge camps. Emaciated orphans wander along the highway, lifting bony empty hands to passing drivers....