Descriptive Writing Flashcards
Describe a rainy day (preferably a long drive in a car)
A thunder-shower came up while the girls were at Carmondy, it did not last long, however, and the drive home
- through the lanes
- where raindrops sparkled on the boughs (branches)
- little leafy valleys
- where the drenched ferns gave out spicy odors
- it was delightful.
- but something spoiled the beauty of the landscape for her..
Describe an evening at sunset
- Lingering by the fence
- in the shadow of gently swaying spruce-boughs
- where a wood cut known as the Birch Path joined the main road.
Describe a person (Anne with an e book)
- She wore a faded pink silk dress
- Trimmed with a great deal
-Of cotton lace - Soiled white kid slippers
- Silk stockings
- Her sandy hair was tortured into
- Innumerable unnatural curls
- Surmounted by a
- Flamboyant bow of pink ribbon
- bigger than her head
- judging from her expression,
- she was well satisfied with herself
- A pale little thing
- with smooth ripples of fine, silky, fawn-colored hair
-flowing over her shoulders
Describe a scenery/day
- A September Day on Prince Edward Island Hills
- a crisp wind blowing up
- over the sand dunes from the sea
- a long red road
- winding though fields and woods
- now looping itself about a corner of
-thick-set spruces (heavy)
-now threading a plantation of (threading means to make one’s way through)
-young maples with great feathery
-sheets of fern beneath them
-now dipping down into a hollow (dipping means plunge or immerse) hollow means void or empty
-where a brook flashed out (brook means a small stream)
-of the woods and into them again - now basking in open sunshine between the (basking means to lie exposed to warmth eg- sunbath and can also mean to make the most of)
- ribbons of goldenrod and smoke-blue asters (daisies and flowers)
- a thrill with the pipings of (composed structure)
- myriads of crickets (multitude)
-those glad little pensioners of the summer hills (retired person living there) - a plump, brown pony ambling (strolling)
-along the road;two girls behind him
-full to the lips with the
-simple, priceless joy of youth and life
Describe eating a cake or another delicacy
- Dora’s first piece of cake, for which she had just taken
-one dainty little bite, out of her very fingers
-and opening his mouth to the fullest extent - crammed the whole slice in
Dainty can mean small, delicate, delicacy, luxury or even fastidious and fussy
Describe a walk
- Anne, on her way to Orchard Slope,met Diana,
-bound for Green Gables
-just where the mossy old bridge
-spanned the brook below the Woods
-and they sat down by the margin of the Dryad’s Bubble
-where tiny ferns were unrolling
-like curly-headed green pixy- folk
-wakening up from a nap
Describe a picnic
-Saturday proved an ideal day for a picnic..
-a day of breeze
-and blue, warm, sunny
- with a little rollicking wind (rollicking means lively)
-blowing across meadow and orchard.
-over every sunlit upland and field (upland means high of hilly land)
-was a delicate, slower-starred green.
Describe a fantastical journey
- One day I found a big cave down
-on the shore and I went away in
-and after a while I found the Golden Lady - she had golden hair right down to her feet
-and her dress is all glittering and glistening - like gold that is alive.
-and she has a golden harp
-and plays on it all day long
-you can hear the music any time along shore if you listen carefully
-but most people would think
-it was only the wind among the rocks
Boat
- came sailing over the sea in an enchanted boat
-the boat was all pearly and rainbowy, like the inside of the mussel shells
-and her sail was like moonshine. - we sailed right across the sunset
-think of it, I’ve been in the sunset
-and what do you suppose it is? - the sunset is a land of all flowers
-like a great garden
-and the clouds are the beds of the flowers - we sailed into the great harbor
-all the color of gold
-and i stepped right out of the boat on.a big meadow
-all covered with buttercups as big as roses
-i stayed there for ever so long - you see, in the sunset land, time is ever so much longer than it is here
Describe twilight
- Anne, who was perched on the edge (perched means rest on something or positioned )
-of the veranda, (veranda is similar to porch of house)
-enjoying the charm of a mild west wind
-blowing across a newly
-ploughing field on a
-grey November twilight
-and piping a quaint little melody across the twisted firs
-below the garden
-turned her dreamy face over her shoulder
Describe an afternoon
- But an August afternoon
-with blue haze scarfing the harvest slopes (scarfing means to engulf or join) - little winds whispering elfishly
-in the poplars, (poplars are trees)
-and a dancing splendor
-of red poppies out flaming against the
-dark coppic e of young firs in a
-corner of the cherry orchard - was fitter for dreams than
-dead language
Describe a path
The path was a winding one, so narrow that the girls walked in a single file
And even then the fir boughs brushed their faces
Under the firs were velvety cushions of moss, and further on,
Where the trees were smaller and fewer,
The ground was rich in a variety of green growing things.
That was a shallow woodland pool in the center of a little open glade
Where the path ended.
Later on in the season it would be dried up
And its place filled with a rank growth of ferns;but now it was a glimmering placid sheet,
Round as a saucer and clear as crystal.
A ring of slender young birches encircled it and little ferns fringed its margin.
Describe a lane
First, skirting pasture, came an archway of wild cherry-trees all in bloom.
The girls swung their hats on their arms and wreathed their hair with the creamy fluffy blossoms.
Then the lane turned at right angled and plunged into a spruce wood
So thick and dark that they walked in a gloom as of twilight,
With not a glimpse of sky or sunlight to be seen
Describe a yellow evening
Anne locked the schoolhouse door on a still, yellow evening,
When the winds were purring in the spruces around the playground, and the shadows were long
BY the edge of the woods
Describe a happy land
there the rose of joy bloomed immortal by dale and stream
clouds never darkened the sunny sky
sweet bells never jangled out of tune
and kindred spirits abounded.
Describe a parlour
The parlour at green gables was a rather severe and gloomy apartment
With rigid horsehair furniture
Stiff lace curtains and white anyimacassars that were always laid at a perfectly correct angle,
Except at such times as they clung to unfortunate peoples buttons