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- Characteristics of subjective descriptions
- Examples of subjective descriptions
- Subjective descriptions in science
Thesubjective description It is the description in which the issuer intends to show his interpretation of something. In these descriptions, the priority is no longer to show some aspect of reality but the position and personal opinion of the issuer. For example: This house is really charming.
Although in some cases the difference may be slight, the first intention of the author is what will mark the class of words used in the description, within which adjectives will always be highlighted.
It is common for descriptions of this type to also appear literary figures such as hyperbole, comparison or metaphors. These are resources to give more beauty to the set of words, which also follows certain rhythmic patterns, very typical of each author of these descriptions.
- See also: Objective description
Characteristics of subjective descriptions
Subjective description places the sender of the message on a higher plane than the object itself. The exact representation of how it is to be described will no longer be paramount, but the author's interpretations will prevail. These visions will be loaded with your subjectivity, your particular experiences and your history.
However, the receiver is also modified: he must no longer be a receiver eager to know exactly the object to be described, but a receiver interested in knowing that object mediated by the optics of the descriptor subject.
The literary genre with which subjective descriptions most correspond is the genre of fictional narrative, particularly short stories, novels and poems. The descriptions of certain authors acquire value by the way in which these authors are able to express in words their perception of a place, a person or even a period.
- See also: Static and dynamic description
Examples of subjective descriptions
- She seems the cutest to me.
- It is the most beautiful city I have ever known.
- The surface of the wall was painted in a color that made it possible to feel in a peaceful forest.
- Nothing caresses its surface anymore and they eagerly await the caresses of the dominoes or perhaps, with more luck, the contact of a soft green cloth.
- The caresses he gave me were the best a woman could give.
- She looks like the most beautiful girl in the world, but she is only so on the outside.
- The medical degree is the most difficult in the entire university.
- He is a person who cares a lot about things, but does not do much to modify them.
- He must take three medications a day and he is only forty years old, I think he is in a worrying state.
- I found myself touring the house inside, honestly feeling like I was in a garbage dump.
- He does not like necklaces or bracelets, he prefers to always be in a simpler style.
- The band released their second album, which includes twenty songs and only three deserve to be heard.
- Clearly, the political instability of the government shows that in a few months there will be an outbreak.
- All the appliances are modern, but the apartment seems neglected anyway.
- The state of the train tracks is a postcard of the decadence that the town has had.
- I must say that that dog is the most polite I have ever seen.
- An economic model like this has led our country to ruin.
- Its walls, wide and untidy, recall the sufferings of the city.
- There were things in the room that the gods would like.
- She is very funny and cheerful, she always has a smile from ear to ear.
- Continue with: Subjective and objective sentences
Subjective descriptions in science
It could be said, beforehand, that subjective descriptions are practically absent from the sciences. The normal thing is that in scientific texts there are many objective descriptions that deal with referring to an object as it is seen.
However, social disciplines must necessarily fall back on subjective descriptions, to the extent that their studies always need the observation of reality and characterization.
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