telling detail
- revealingMaking known what's hidden
- clueSolving aid
- nuanceSlight shade of difference
- gestureCommunicative body movement
- observationAttentive watching or remark
giveaway · hint · significant · particular · specific · vivid · precise · illuminating · betraying · moment · glance · pause · flicker · texture · evidence · insight · suggestive · minute
- descriptiondescription, detail, descriptive prose, vivid imagery, sensory detail
significance
telling detailfiller
Substance closing gaps
noise · red herring · padding · background noise · fluff
specificity
telling detailabstraction
Distilling to essential qualities
generalization · vagueness · platitude · boilerplate · cliché
authenticity/truth-value
telling detailred herring
Intentional misleading distraction
misdirection · planted evidence · smokescreen · distraction · MacGuffin