Read the sentence from “Broken Chain.” His father had come home that evening from a softball game, happy that his team had drill
ed four homers in a thirteen-to-five bashing of Color Tile. Which type of descriptive language is used in the sentence? a vivid verb describing what the father's team did a graphic adjective describing how the father feels a simile comparing the father's team to Color Tile's team a metaphor comparing the color of the evening sky to tile
The answer is: a vivid verb
describing what the father's team did
<span>This is the descriptive
language used in the sentence because it addresses the five senses of the reader.
The point of a descriptive language is that it should help the reader’s
imagination in creating a picture in their minds. The verb in the sentence
gives the reader a clear image of what the father’s team did.</span>
