Concept in Definition ABC

Description is one of the narrative forms and of the language, perhaps the most commonly used due to its ease and accessibility. We understand by description, in general terms, a narration which is based on the detailed enumeration of the different elements that make up an object, a situation, a phenomenon, a feeling, etc. Describe it means, precisely, to make a count of the elements that make up what we want to describe.

One of the objectives of description as a rhetorical or discursive mode is to allow the one who acts as a reader or as part of the audience, receive fully and as accurately as possible the way a situation, an element or a person is. Thus, a description can be fixed not only on things or elements visible to the naked eye (for example, if a person is blonde or brunette) if not also seek to raise underlying elements (for example, the function of a object or traits morals of a person). Each descriptive element that is added to the narrative will be useful to know the described object more and better.

Typically, the description is used in all aspects of life, not just in the realm literary. While in this case it has a character artistic (in many cases also fictional, depending on the type of work), in other cases the artistic can be left aside. It is here when we speak of descriptions made in particular situations, for example, in situations of crime or crime (those descriptions made by the policeman and that they must always be as exact as possible); scientific descriptions (which are based on the description and recounting of observable facts empirically, they have a much more specific language as well as inaccessible to the rest of the people), etc. Whatever the case, the description always allows to establish the elements or components of what is described in order to allow it to be understood and analyzed more fully.