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Objective & Subjective Descrition
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Objective Description
Pass your description to your
front/back partner.
Partner, DRAW the object based on their description.
Objective Description
Example of
Subjective Description
from Unbroken
"Louie fixed his eyes on the gleaming head of the pomaded competitor, who was many runners ahead. He began a dramatic acceleration. Around the turn and down the backstretch, Louie kicked, his legs reaching and pushing, his cleats biting the track, his speed dazzling" (Hillenbrand 35).
Choose an item from your backpack or pocket. On your paper, write an objective description of the object.
Use as much detail as possible.
Notice everything.
Use your five senses.
Subjective Description
Partner, write down what you think your partner’s opinion is about cats based on their description.
On your paper, write down 5 words you associate with ‘cat’ and pass it silently to your right/left partner.
When is Subjective Description used?
- personal essays, reviews, persuasive speeches and commentaries.
- Often used in advertising to motivate consumers
- In narrative writing, it is often used when delevoping characters
Objective & Subjective Descrition
Subjective Description
- personal
- reflects thoughts, feelings, mood of writer
- creates powerful impressions
- uses connotations
- uses emotional appeals and images that readers will understand and appreciate.
Example of
Objective Description
from Unbroken
"But Louie was already the fasted high school miler in American history, and he was improving so rapidly that he lopped fourty-two seconds off his time in two years.His record mile, run when he was seventeen, was three and a half seconds faster than Cunningham's high school mile, run when he was twenty" (Hillenbrand 22).
Objective Description
When is Objective Description used?
Unbroken is a Biography
What type of description
makes most sense
for Laura Hillenbrand to use?
-best suited for academic, business, and professional writing
-although the writer might have an opinion, it is reflected by selecting factual details rather than using figurative language
- focuses on facts, statistics, observable details
- types of objective description:
- textbooks
- training manuals
- business reports
- government publications
- avoids emotion, sensationalism, or subjective interpretation
Objective and Subjective descriptions
often OVERLAP
-Sometimes a single sentence contains both objective and subjective elements:
"He burst through, blew past the race leader, and with his shoe torn open, shins streaming with blood, and chest aching, won easily" (Hillenbrand 44).