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Descriptive Essay

An effective description uses sensory details to set a scene, create a portrait, or describe an object. In the descriptive essay below, student writer Lindsay McKay describes one of her favorite places.

Times Square

Beginning:
The beginning plunges readers into the crowded chaos.
Cars, trucks, and buses shoulder in honking herds on Broadway, 7th Avenue, and 42nd Street. Vehicles fill Times Square, stuck in intersections as the light changes from yellow to red. Horns wail frustration into the night.

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