word-picture
Language paints imagery
A word-picture is a vivid verbal description that creates a mental image, painting a scene through language rather than visual art: The novelist's word-picture of the countryside made readers feel they were standing in the meadow themselves.
The term emphasizes descriptive writing that appeals strongly to the senses.
Vivid descriptive language
- visualizationForming mental or graphical images
- mental imageInternal visual representation
- illustrationPicture explaining something
- graphicVividly detailed or visual
snapshot · scene · tableau · portrait · vignette · sketch · rendering · representation
Intensely clear and bright
- evocativeTending to summon memories
- descriptive writingText emphasizing sensory detail
- imageryVivid descriptive language
- proseUnversified language
poetic · sensory detail · atmospheric · illustrative · expressive · eloquent · picturesque · lyrical
Figurative Norse compound
- portmanteauWord combining two others
- neologismNewly created expression
- blendCombine into mixture
- coinageInvented term or currency
hybrid · combination · fusion · wordplay
imagery
Vivid descriptive language
- visualizationForming mental or graphical images
- mental imageInternal visual representation
- illustrationPicture explaining something
graphic · snapshot · scene · tableau · portrait · vignette · sketch · rendering · representation · impression
vivid
Intensely clear and bright
- evocativeTending to summon memories
- descriptive writingText emphasizing sensory detail
- imageryVivid descriptive language
prose · poetic · sensory detail · atmospheric · illustrative · expressive · eloquent · picturesque · lyrical · metaphorical
kenning
Figurative Norse compound
- portmanteauWord combining two others
- neologismNewly created expression
- blendCombine into mixture
coinage · hybrid · combination · fusion · wordplay
emoji
Digital pictograph for messaging
- pictogramSymbol using visual likeness
- ideogramSymbol representing concept directly
- hieroglyphAncient Egyptian picture-writing symbol
rebus · logogram · symbol · glyph · sign · kanji · hanzi · cuneiform · visual communication · character
word-picturephotograph
Image from a camera
picture · image · visual · illustration · photo
word, picture, words, pictures, worded, wording, pictured, picturing, pictorial