THE DESCRIPTIVE THEME

A piece of pure de¬scription, like that called for by the following model, becomes very monotonous unless the writer takes care to vary the fundamental qualities used in the different motives. It is sometimes well, for instance, to assign to a person's appearance a quality which makes him contrast oddly with the place in which he lives. Pains should also be taken to vary the devices used in the handling of material, and to see that the sentences differ from one another in gram¬matical and rhetorical structure and in length. The following three theme-models will serve for extended descriptions of persons, places, etc.