please help me with hwk.

I am doing a project about ''pirates'' and we have to describe a forest, a lake, a swamp, mountain.[they are all on one island]

I need some ideas, sentence, keywords....anything that you think will help.

the island is not a very pleasant one, and the description has to be like misrable, and scary ..etc...

THANKS.

The best advice I can give you is BE ORIGINAL.

Add a twist to your work.

Focus on your 5 senses. What can you see? what sounds can you hear? What can you smell? Is there a taste is the air? What do things feel like?

Also, experiment with your vocab. One way to do this is to pick a colour and gl through as many words you can associate with that colour.

Hope this helps

What level are you doing? GCSE?

im in year 9, moving to GCSE in a weeks time, inshallah.
jazakom Allah khairan

Is this like a story?

no, im describing different places *writing to describe*

we usually have to describe everything in cronological order, spacial order or order of importance <--it helps alot cuz den u get every detail

choose a few words that overall discribe the setting than focus on those while ur writing

good luck!

hmm write up a basic piece of what you want to say.
ie: the lake was large

then go over that and change what you can to make it more descriptive.
above example changes to you mentioning the lake was large and forbidding, the shape of a ....It was filled with murky grey water.... the air around it thick. ...you could see the suns reflection peeping from the clouds onto the water revealing blackness in the water ........... etc etc im sure you get the picture


Or post up the piece and and inshaAllah we can help you change stuff.
And dont forget to use the thesaurus.

salams

another thing which may add some evokativeness is ur tense..

i dno if this is allowed..

bt rather than using "was this and was that"

try "is this and is that"

perhaps involve the reader in the description if ur allowed...

"isnt it aweful to step in mud when uve just shined ur boots?"
"was that the sound of the october monsoon...?"

i dnt even knw if this is a story...


gluck

asalam alaikum wr wb,

Here are some ideas...

1) the air was thick with the smell of decaying woodland

2) masses of dead reddish brown seaweed littered the beach like rotting corpses

3) jagged rocks of raven black jutted out from the murky waters, their sharp contours chiselled into defiant faces

4) the hands of time had cruelly stripped the island of it's beauty and tranquility, leaving a sense of forboding hanging in the air

5) the island seemed dead and yet alive, as if it had sensed my presence and was warning me of evil that lay ahead (or) as if it sensed an intruder and was sending out a warning to turn back

6) distant calls of seagulls (or whatever birds) belied the absence of life

7) dark and imposing mountains rose high into the sky casting gloomy shadows deep into the forest, it's deep and dark crevices mocking as if hiding stories of untold misery

8) the trees stood silent yet seemed to sway hypnotically in my peripheral vision, their thick but ravaged brances reaching out like the arms of an anguished lover

9) the island's eerie silence was like that of a partially deaf man listening attentively for any sound

10) the stench of rotten eggs caused by the algae rose over the lake like bad souls wandering aimlessly

a) The lake itself seemed fathomless and unforgiving
b) it's waters reflected a surface that appeared inviting yet impenetrable at the same time; as if once you'd surrendered to it's invitation, it would never let you resurface again

11) muhahaha lol *snaps fingers* wake up

hope that helps?

wa alaikum asalam wr wb.

WOW!!! mashallah, jazakom Allah khairan muslima_sis! that will be really beneficial inshallah

asalam alaikum wr wb,

wa iyya kum bro

Good luck!

wa alaikum asalam wr wb.

oh good idea, I will includ it in my description.
today is the last day, so tthanks 4 all the help