This does not mean, however, that the subject always opens the sentence; it would be too monotonous. A necessity may arise in the course of writing to lay a special stress on this or that idea, detail, etc. | Section 3. Writing Practice. Composition Technique Description. There are two kinds of description technical and suggestive. Technical description gives an objective account of the appearance or structure of a thing. Read the following description of a sitting-room As you come into the room you notice a piano with a low music-stool in front of it. Next to the piano a tall bookcase is standing against the wall. On the left there is a large window. Under the window there is a radiator but you can t see it because it s behind the settee. On the settee there are two cushions. the fire-place is at the other end of the room. On each side of the fire-place there is an arm-chair. In the center of the mantelpiece there s a clock and above it an oval mirror. On the right you can see a standard lamp. Opposite the fire-place you can see a small table with an ashtray and some newspapers on it. By the table there s a small chair. The floor is covered with a beautiful thick carpet. An electric light is hanging from the middle of the ceiling. At night when it gets dark we switch on the light and draw the curtains. During the day the light comes in through the window. Suggestive description evokes an impression of a place scene or person. It is primarily emotional. In describing a place or a scene the student shpuld first determine the central emotional effect which he wishes to arouse. Then the student should select the details which will most effectively develop this impression and present them as vividly as he can. For an illustration see the passage by John Galsworthy quoted from The Apple Tree Spring was a revelation to him this year. In a kind of intoxication he would watch the pink-white buds of some backward birch tree sprayed up in the sunlight against the deep blue sky or the trunks and limbs of the new Scotch firs tawny in violet light or again on the moor the galebent larches which had such a look of life when the wind streamed in their young green above the rusty black
