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- Result of putting in words; a synopsis of what something is.
- Procedure of putting in words, see indescribable.
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. Each of the rhetorical modes is present in a variety of forms and each has its own purpose and conventions.
Description is also the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story.
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Description as a rhetorical mode
The purpose of description is to re-create, invent, or visually present a person, place, event, or action so that the reader may picture that which is being described. Descriptive writing may be found in the other rhetorical modes.
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See also
- Anthropomorphism
- Cliche
- Ekphrasis
- Fiction writing
- Fiction-writing modes
- Grammatical modifier
- Grammatical voice
- Metaphors
- Narrative mode
- Nouns
- Objectification
- Personification
- Point of view
- Purple prose
- Relevance
- Rhetorical devices
- Rhetorical modes
- Simile
- Verisimilitude
- Word choice
- Writing
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