Description

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• Types of descriptions
• Examples of short descriptions

The description It is a speech (oral or written) that details and explains the characteristics of a place, person, animal, thing or situation. For example: It was a huge place, very bright and with a privileged view.

It is a resource that is used both in fiction texts and in journalistic or scientific texts, since they help the reader to imagine the situation described.

Descriptive sentences do not use action verbs but state verbs. Descriptions characterize something and do not assign particular behaviors to it, but rather stop at its general characteristics.

A description can be objective, when it sticks to describing reality without hinting at the author's position, or subjective, which conveys the way in which the issuer perceives something.

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Types of descriptions

• Prosopography. It is a type of description that focuses on the physical features of the person. For example: Maria has big, black, sad eyes. His hair is jet black.
• Etopeia. Describe psychological or moral-looking traits. The character's feelings and personality are also described. For example: Maria is very religious. He was always mass on Sundays and he never did anything wrong.
• Portrait. It is the combination of physical, psychological and moral characteristics when describing a person. Continuing with the previous example, the portrait combines both descriptions. For example: "Maria has big, black, sad eyes. His hair is jet black. (She) is very religious. He was always mass on Sundays and he never did anything wrong ”.Within this type of description we can find the self-portrait, that is, the description of himself.
• Literary cartoon. It is a type of description that shows physical, psychological or moral traits but with special focus on some traits, especially negative traits. The literary cartoon will try to exaggerate the character or disproportionate some physical aspect to provoke ridicule. For example: Maria had giant eyes. They looked like two suns in solar eclipse. The cartoons can use different figures of speech such as hyperbole, metaphor or comparison.
• Topography. It is the description of a landscape or place. For example: After the rain, there was the smell of wet earth. The trees were still dropping some drops that they had held on their leaves for a few minutes.Thus, after almost 3 days, the first rays of sunlight were reflected on the wet grass. Spring had started that same day.

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Examples of short descriptions

1. The flowers looked dull and dull. They had almost lost all their leaves and the petals were already on the ground. It had not rained in that place for almost 4 months.
2. Romina is 32 years old. She is 1.65 meters tall. She is slim and dark in complexion. He has brown eyes and a wide smile.
3. Constanza has always wanted to stand out from her classmates. She is a little egocentric and capricious girl. He always wants things to be done his way and not otherwise.
4. The cars were ready to start the race. They had been carefully checked. The drivers were anxious because this was an important race: the final of the world championship would be played. The driver of the yellow car was called Pedro. He was more nervous than anyone, because it was his first race and he wanted to win yes or yes. Juan, the driver of the green car, was not nervous at all. He had competed at least 20 times and already knew what would happen. Last was Julian, who commanded the red car. He was more concerned because he had argued with his girlfriend Anabelle before the race and she had not been to see him.
5. The house was spacious, bright, and welcoming. With the wooden floor and wide windows that showed a beautiful garden of pink flowers. Clara was going to live there for 4 months. I was happy. Clara loved flowers and especially pink flowers.
6. Popy the dog was very hairy. She had a lot of knots. She was old, she was at least 14 years old. He slept a lot and used to eat little, except when someone offered him a pork leg because he loved that.
7. Tamara was 26 years old, had two children, and lived on the outskirts of a big city with them. She had been divorced 2 years ago from the girls' father. She had met, last summer, a man from the village. His name was Juan Carlos. HE was 32 years old. They met while she was shopping at the store where Juan Carlos used to shop. It was a hot morning when they met. It had rained all night and the roads had been flooded. That's why Tamara came to town: to buy firewood because what she had had gotten wet from the flood. His was love at first sight. They fell in love and after four years they got married. I often go to visit them. They have been together for 23 years now. They are very happy in their home on the outskirts of that great city.

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