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Question1: How would a newspaper account have been different?

Answer: It would be more factual and less emotional. Newspaper reporters do not use similes and avoid repetition. A story of a flood in a newspaper would say soberly that the river burst its banks, flooded a certain area of land and caused x-amount of damage to crops and left y-number of people homeless. A descriptive piece might compare the river to a dragon rising in fury and try to express the sound of the water as it poured over dikes built to hold it in. A journalist chooses words for precise meaning whereas a descriptive writer wants effects.