Journal 4

Name: Erin Munchel

Journal Assignment #4

Descriptive Writing Assignment

Using Ann Hodgman’s essay as a model, write a detailed description of a recent meal that you ate. Your focus should be on describing as many aspects of your food as you can.

Important Elements: Concrete/Abstract Images

Multi-Sensory Images Simile, Metaphor, Analogy

Dominant Impression

Salad

Today for lunch I ate salad. Eating plain lettuce was like eating leaves, but I had salad dressing, like oil and thickening pepper. The lettuce can be pale green, dark green, or even purple. The dressing was ‘house; dressing, made from where I work. It looked like watered down iced tea mixed with grains of sand and colorful red, green, and black specs grated off the side of a crayon. Although it looked odd, it was delicious. The salad contained bright bed tomatoes, which I hate. They are mushy and full of seeds, almost like eating the inside of pumpkin carvings. However, the cucumbers I love. They are a soft but limber texture that is smooth to touch. They have a few seeds, but they dissolve in your mouth like pomegranate seeds. Some lettuce wilts like unwatered plants left at home while vacationing. Other lettuce is crisp, but easily chewed. Salad smells fresh, like walking through a garden. Eating the vegetables sounds like someone walking through a field of high crass, occasionally stepping on a corn stalk, a very crunchy reverberation. Salad is one of the most beautiful things to eat. It is colorful, and includes many different textures. Variations of green, red, orange, and purple are vividly shown inside my salad bowl.