Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Jan. 2011
Describing is explaining, telling, representing, defining, in detail, the characteristic qualities or essential circumstances of something or someone, and always doing it in an organized way.
“Please describe the landscape for us. Give us your description physical.”
Explain and tell in detail the characteristics of something or someone
When we describe something, or failing that to someone, it is practically impossible not to fall into the subjectivity, since that description will be made from the individual vision that each one has, that is, if I like the field, surely, my description of the landscape of a field It will be mostly positive, on the other hand, if I do not like it at all, that will affect my way of describing the place in question, showing in some details that I will give, that I do not like the countryside. On the other hand, one person may describe another as beautiful and pleasant, while another, with another view of life, may see it as very unpleasant.
Objective and subjective descriptions, characteristics
This situation does not mean that someone is lying but rather what it tells us is that each person has a way own to see life and it is impossible that it does not influence the description that they ask you to make about this or that thing.
Now, this does not imply that there are no objective descriptions, there are ...
In an objective description the object will be reflected as it is in reality, the feelings or emotions at the time of making the description, personal reflections will not mediate either.
Technical descriptions are an example of this class, since in them the objective is to make known of whom it corresponds, the characteristics that an object presents, its components, how it works, the usefulness that it can be give.
And for his part, in the subjective descriptions that we have already described above lines, whoever describes will put in the foreground your emotions and feelings, what the object or person you describe arouses in the soul.
In the literature It is where we can most come across this type of description.
Types of descriptions
On the other hand, we can distinguish the description by what it deals with describing, thus if what is describes is a person will be making a portrait, which can usually be accompanied by a representation graph in which an attempt is made to graph each particular characteristic of the person portrayed.
The prosopography only contains the physical conditions of an object, while the ethopeia concentrates on the psychic aspects of a person.
When we describe objects we will be making a chronography and when describing a place a topography.
It is also common for descriptions to use literary resources such as comparisons, metaphors, personifications and any type of sensory image, that is, that comes from our senses: sight, smell, taste, touch and heard.
On the other hand, when we describe a thing or a person it will be a condition without equanom doing it through the word, depending on the situation, there may be extra aids such as a He drew or a graphic, but mostly it will be the word that commands. Likewise, when describing we must be as clear and orderly as possible to provide a coherent and detailed description of either qualities or circumstances.
Meanwhile, the representation or detailed explanation of the qualities or characteristics of something or someone, that is, the result of the action of describing, is called description.
The description process will always be preceded by the observation of the phenomenon. You cannot describe something that was not appreciated.
Trace the path of the body
And describe can also be trace a path of the body moving in an imaginary figure.
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