Edgar Allen Poe once said “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror to their reality...” A lot of great writers use descriptive adjectives to describe their setting and paint a picture in the mind of the readers. In the story “The Contender” by Robert Lipsyte and “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, the authors uses descriptive adjectives to develop the setting. In the novel “The Contender” by Robert Lipsyte the author uses descriptive language to help develop the mood and setting in the story. In the story it state“The grass was spongy with dew and the air was cool and sweet, filling his lungs until they pressed against his ribs and a stitch ran up.” It sets the describes the character, Alfred,
