Want to brush up on your descriptive writing? Learn to use adjectives, imagery, alliteration and onomatopoeia in this BBC Bitesize KS3 English guide.

Upper elementary teachers can guide students to focus on small details as they learn to use descriptive language and imagery.

For National 4 English learn to include selected descriptive details which will make the characters and settings in your creative writing more convincing.

Examples One of the best ways to learn any skill is to watch people who do it well. Reading is just as important to developing your writing skills as actually writing. Here are a few examples of ...

The present discussion on words that help describe situations, people or places is meant to correct the general impression that adjectives are the only descriptive words in English language.

Nan Luo, Minghui Li, Julie Chevalier, Andrew Lloyd, Michael Herdman, A comparison of the scaling properties of the English, Spanish, French, and Chinese EQ-5D descriptive systems, Quality of Life ...