What are the 10 key skills and techniques for making your descriptive writing effective?

1. Detailed adjectives and nouns to describe geographical or physical features 2. Reference to senses 3. Verbs, adverbs and prepositions that convey movement 4. Personification of inanimate objects 5. Imagery 6. Description of setting 7. Contrast and juxtaposition 8. Compound and complex sentences that develop initial ideas 9. Verbal patterning and repetition creating effects that imitate descibed or reflect experience of narrator 10 Using pen as camera lence