Descriptive language appeals to the reader's five senses: taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing. When used correctly, descriptive words can help the writer entertain, persuade, inform, and educate. Descriptive language needn't be overly flowery or wordy, but it should be thoughtfully placed to give purpose and description to the image it is trying to create in the mind of the reader. Sometimes descriptive language is to add a poetic touch to the text, but more often than not it simply serves the purpose of cleverly describing a concept.

the different types of descriptive language:

• Idiom.

• Simile.

• Hyperbole.

• Alliteration.

• Metaphor.

• Personification.

• Onomatopoeia.

• Oxymoron.

Good descriptive writing includes many vivid sensory details that paint a picture and appeals to all of the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste when appropriate. ... Good descriptive writing uses precise language.