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 physical description.”
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 will be mostly positive, on the other hand, if I do not like it for Nothing, that will affect my way of describing the place in question, noting 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 a different 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 their own way of seeing life and it is impossible that it does not influence the description that they are asked to do 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, feelings or emotions will not be mixed when making the description, nor will personal reflections mediate.
Technical descriptions are an example of this class, since in them the objective is to inform whoever corresponds, the characteristics that an object presents, its components, how it works, the usefulness that it can be given.
And for his part, in the subjective descriptions that we have already described above, whoever describes will put his emotions and feelings on the front page, what the object or person he describes arouses in his soul.
It is in the literature where we can come across this type of description the most.
Types of descriptions
On the other hand, we can distinguish the description by what it deals with describing, so if what is being described is a person, a portrait will be made, which can usually be accompanied by a graphic representation in which each characteristic is tried to graph. particular 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 hearing.
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 help such as a drawing or a graph, 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.
