Descriptive Writing

Question 1

Describe a rainy day (preferably a long drive in a car)

Answer 1

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..

Question 2

Describe an evening at sunset

Answer 2

• 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.

Question 3

Describe a person (Anne with an e book)

Answer 3

• 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

Question 4

Describe a scenery/day

Answer 4

• 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

Question 5

Describe eating a cake or another delicacy

Answer 5

• 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

Question 6

Describe a walk

Answer 6

• 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

Question 7

Describe a picnic

Answer 7

-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.

Question 8

Describe a fantastical journey

Answer 8

• 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

Question 9

Describe twilight

Answer 9

• 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

Question 10

Describe an afternoon

Answer 10

• 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

Question 11

Describe a path

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

Describe a lane

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Describe a yellow evening

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Describe a happy land

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Describe a parlour

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Setting the table

Answer 16

The table was set in the sitting room with Marilla’s finest linen and the best china, glass and silver.
You may be certain be perfectly certain that every article placed on it was
Polished or scoured to the highest possible perfection of gloss and glitter

Question 17

Describe the kitchen

Answer 17

Then the girls tripped out to the kitchen
Which was filled with appetizing odors emanating from the oven
Where the chickens were already sizzling splendidly
Anne prepared the potatoes and
Diana got the peas and beans ready
Then while Diana shut herself into the pantry to compound the lettuce salad
Anne whose cheeks were already beginning to glow crimson, as much with excitement as from the heat of the fire, prepared the bread sauce for the chicken
Minced her onions for the soup and finally
Whipped the cream for her lemon pies
At half past seven. The lettuce salad was made,
The golden circles of the pies were heaped with whipped cream
And everything was sizzling and bubbling that ought to sizzle and bubble

Question 18

Describe a sky

Answer 18

Payed the letter down on the red sandstone step of the back porch, where she was sitting
While the twilight rained down out of the dappled sky

Anne was kneeling down at the west gable window watching the sunset sky that was
Like a great flower with petals of crocus
And a heart of fiery yellow

The day was not especially pleasant for traveling
It was warm and windless and the dust on the road was such as might have been expected after 6 weeks of dry weather

Pond to the sand shore to pick up sweet grass and paddle in the surf
Over which the wind was harping an old lyric learning when the world was young.

September slipped by into a gold and crimson graciousness of October

Anne rose bedtimes the next morning and blithely greeted the fresh day
When the banners of the sunrise were shaken triumphantly across the pearly skies
Green gables lay in a pool of sunshine, flecked withe dancing shadows of poplar and willow
Beyond the lane was mr. Harrisons wheat field , a great, wind-rippled expanse of pale gold.
The world was so beautiful that Anne spent ten blissful minutes hanging idly over the garden ate drinking the loveliness in.

Question 19

Describe a house

Answer 19

The house was a low-eaves structure built of undressed blocks of red Island sandstone,
With a little peaked roof out of which peered two dormer windows
With quaint wooden hoods over them and two great chimneys/
The whole house was covered with a luxuriant growth of ivy,
Finding it easy foothold on the rough stonework and turned
By autumn frost to most beautiful bronze and wine-red tints

Question 20

Describe a face

Answer 20

Her hair is snow-white, but her face is fresh and almost girlish and she has the sweetest brown eyes…. Such a pretty shade of wood-brown with little golden glints in them
And her voice makes u think of white satin
And tinkling water and fairy bells all mixed up together

Question 21

Describe indoors

Answer 21

There were sounds of riot a d mirth in the little stone house that night.
Way with cooking and feasting and making candy
And laughing and pretending
It is quite true that miss. Lavenders and Anne comported themselves in a fashion entirely unsuited to a divinity of
A spinster of 45
Then when they were tired, they sat down on the rug before the grate
In the parlour
Lighted only by the soft fire shine and perfumed deliciously by miss lavender open rose-jar on the mantel

Question 22

Describe the wind

Answer 22

The wind has risen and was sighing and wailing around the eaves
And the snow was thudding softy against the windows
As if a hundred storm sprites were tapping for entrance

It was deed black, save where its curled and fringed edges a showed a ghastly, livid white
There was something about it indescribably menacing as it gloomed up in the
Clear blue sky, now and again a bolt of lightning shot across it
Followed by a savage growl. It hung so low that it almost seemed to be touching the tops of the wooded hills

Question 23

Describe the sky (2)

Answer 23

As they dashed into the kitchen
The light seemed to vanish
As if blown out by some mighty breath, the awful cloud rolled over the sun
And a darkness as of late twilight fell across the world.
At the same moment, with a crash of thunder and a blinding
Glare of lightning, the hail stopped
Down and blotted the landscape out in on white fury

Question 24

Describe a winter

Answer 24

One twilight where the moonlight was raining ‘airy silver’ through the cherry boughs and filling the east gable
With a soft, dream- Iike radiance
Lilies amid he grass
And the wind sighing sorrowfully in the cherry - trees