descriptive passages
Writing that illustrates
Descriptive passages are sections of writing that create vivid impressions through sensory detail and imagery.
In literature, they pause narrative action to render settings, characters, or objects: The novel opens with a long descriptive passage about the moors.
Often contrasted with dialogue, action, or exposition.
Some readers skip descriptive passages; others savor them.
- imageryVivid descriptive language
- fictionImagined narrative work
- vividnessIntense clarity or lifelikeness
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
- poetryMetrical literary composition
nature writing · travel writing · literary fiction · adjectives · immersion · personification · metaphors · adverbs · texture · characterization · similes · memoirs · juxtaposition · sensory details · sensory language · word painting · emotional resonance · detail
descriptive passagesdialogue
Spoken exchange between parties
action sequences · action · action scenes · conversations · dramatic action
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