What is dominant impression?

Answer 1

A sense impression or an emotion

• it guides your selection of detail and is the central idea you express in your thesis sentence
• If, for example you are describing the future, you must decide if the future is threatening or wonderful; in order to have one dominant impression, it cannot be both.

Answer 2

State Street, that “great street,” is a dirty, desolate, and depressing street for most of its length. It runs straight and potholed from the Chicago city line, up through the black ghettos of the South Side, an aching wasteland of derelict factories pitted with broken windows, instant slum apartment blocks, vandalized playgrounds encased in chain-link Fencing, and vacant lots where weeds sprout gamely from the rubble and from the rusting hulks of abandoned automobiles. Those shops that remain open are protected by barricades of steel mesh. One or two men occupy every doorway, staring sullenly onto the street, heedless of the taunting clusters of skyscrapers to the north.RuSSell MIlleR,Bunny: The Real SToRyof P

Answer 3

State Street, that “great street,” is a dirty, desolate, and depressing street for most of its length. It runs straight and potholed from the Chicago city line, up through the black ghettos of the South Side, an aching wasteland of derelict factories pitted with broken windows, instant slum apartment blocks, vandalized playgrounds encased in chain-link fencing, and vacant lots where weeds sprout gamely from the rubble and from the rusting hulks of abandoned automobiles. Those shops that remain open are protected by barricades of steel mesh. One or two men occupy every doorway, staring sullenly onto the street, heedless of the taunting clusters of skyscrapers to the north.RuSSell MIlleR,Bunny: The Real SToRyof P