Descriptive Essay topics for Students

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Descriptive Essay

A descriptive essay is a form of essay that describes something. In this type of essay, the writers are assigned the task of describing objects, things, places, experiences, persons, and situations.

The writer uses sensory information to enable the readers to use their five senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight to understand the essay.

The following questions contain descriptive elements which may help students who are writing descriptive essays:

☑️ Where did it take place?

☑️ When did it happen?

☑️ What is the weather like (rainy, sunny, moody, etc)?

☑️ What are the social conditions like?

☑️ What is the landscape like?

☑️ What are the special details to add?

FORMAT OF A DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

A descriptive essay has the same format as an Expository essay. That is, it has a caption or title, the introduction, the body, and the conclusion.

A good descriptive essay should contain the following:

🔴 A detailed picture of a person, place, or thing.

🟠 An opening paragraph grabs the reader`s attention and tells the topic of the essay.

🟢 Middle paragraphs that provide details about a different part of the subject.

🔵 A closing paragraph that tells what the writer thinks about the topic.

EXAMPLES OF DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

MY FAVOURITE MEAL

Abacha is my favourite meal. It is a popular delicacy known as African salad. Tapioca, wet or dry is extracted from cassava. I don’t know for any other person, what attracts me to this delicacy is the aroma and the manner of garnishment.

The aroma of the local spices like, efuru, ogiri, ugba and ncha made of potassium or palm ashes make it always appetizing and lure people to demand for it.

The sauce which is made from these local spices is used in the preparation depending on the locality and the people. For the garnishing, garden eggs, onions, tomatoes, fish (dried or fry), green vegetables, ugba, etc are used.

This is the reason this delicacy is irresistible. Like, some people accept the offer not because they eat it but because of the embellishments. Once you turn your back, they pick the meat, fish, or vegetables and dump the real meal (Abacha).

It is not strange to me why some people behave in such a manner or why many people avoid this rich and mouth-watering delicacy. People like my father avoid it because it causes heartburns and indigestion to them.

Others avoid it completed because according to them, it upsets their stomach and purges them.I
interviewed a man in a ceremony about why he rejected the offer of African salad. He said; “I don’t eat it. It disorganizes my body system.”

I didn’t quite understand what he meant by that but I know everyone understands his or her body working system. I used to be in this category of those who avoid Abacha for one health challenge or the other.

I discovered that most of the local spices used in preparing this delicacy clog on the stomach lining. Again, condiments like ugba, okpei are fermented.

These could be the reason some experience discomfort as explained earlier. There is one amazing leaf. We know about it but we are yet to fully utilize its medicinal potent. Utazi leaf
also known as Gongronema Latifolium is a super digestant.

It has other health benefits like anti-cancer properties, ulcer healing properties, antioxidants, etc. If you are avoiding African salad because of the negative things it does in your body system, try this meal again with a reasonable quantity of utazi leaf and thank me later.

MY FAVOURITE GAME

My FAVOURITE TEACHER

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