Help with descriptive essay?!?

What a limiting rubric! Well, apparently this teacher likes their essays quite orderly and straightforward, which is kind of ironic considering you are writing about something that is completely OPPOSITE. But I'm rambling. I would start out by just imagining the scene in your mind, and then writing down everything you see as with as much detail as possible (on a scratch sheet of paper; this will be used as a pre-writing exercise). Then, find the object that seems to stand out most in your mind, this will be the 'dominant feature'. From here you can start developing the final order of topics in your essay.�You can organize the various aspects of the room in different ways. One way might be on the location of different objects in relation to the dominant feature, another might be the relationship between the SENSORY IMPRESSIONS of the objects in relation to the dominant feature. For example, you would describe all the soft things in one paragraph, all the rough things in another etc. "Visual impressions" is referring to the use of sensory imagery in your description. So you'll use phrases like "the scent of ____ filled the air" "the air tasted bitter" "the cloth scratched at fingertips" etc. You'll need "appropriate diction" (aka word choice) to do this. Keep a thesaurus handy, and don't limit yourself to visual description! Hope this helps!