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The objective description, or description of the essence, is intended to reflect things as they really are, without statements by the author regarding his feelings or emotions about what he describes. For example: The chair is two meters long.
Description is the area of language that seeks to express, through the word, the characteristics that an observer sees of something. All kinds of descriptions are used in literature as well as in journalistic stories or in scientific texts.
The subjective description, on the contrary, refers to the way in which the sender perceives something. The objective description and the subjective description are not mutually exclusive: a description of what it is, is necessarily issued by a person who has his own focus to observe how it is.
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Characteristics and uses of objective descriptions
The objective description is indispensable, for example, in scientific articles or popular literature.
The essential thing in these cases is that the purpose of the description is to inform and not to move or achieve any aesthetic value in the receiver. The language must be rigorous and the particular assessments of the issuer of the description must be kept to a minimum.
Objective descriptions seek to highlight characteristics that are completely objective, for example, through figures and data. Objective descriptions are also those that give a characteristic that is assumed to be consensual at least within the scope of that description.
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Examples of objective descriptions
- Spring begins, in the southern hemisphere, on September 21.
- The Labrador is one of the best known classes in the world, it is originally from Canada, it is noted for being a hardworking, playful and intelligent animal.
- The book is made up of seven main chapters.
- The trees have a sturdy, tall and strong trunk.
- The floor is made of ceramic and the walls are covered in a yellow color.
- The animal hibernates throughout the winter.
- The city was founded in 1460 by Spanish conquerors.
- It lives, for the most part, in the warm regions of America, mainly in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina.
- Normally they only appear at certain times of the year, as they do not survive long mating or are admitted to the nest after the nuptial flight.
- The surface of the earth is composed, more than 70%, by bodies of water.
- Six thugs entered the bank and took the belongings of everyone who was there.
- Around there are six chairs with wooden backs and a seat upholstered in brown leather.
- They are clearly polymorphic insects, with differences between workers, males and females.
- The body was completely destroyed, and they had to take it to the morgue.
- Small lagoons abound in La Mancha.
- Earth is a planet in the solar system, within the Milky Way galaxy.
- The bar on the corner of my house is an old building, with fourteen tables and sixty wooden chairs.
- He has straight yellow hair with long, upright ears.
- A river is a natural stream of water that flows continuously.
- The Sun is the largest massive celestial object in the solar system.
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