{"id":533,"date":"2006-12-11T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=533"},"modified":"2006-12-11T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T19:55:14","slug":"figures-of-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/figures-of-description\/","title":{"rendered":"figures of description"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These words might come in handy someday: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>topographia &#8211; Description of a place.<\/li>\n<li>astrothesia &#8211; A vivid description of stars.<\/li>\n<li>prosopographia &#8211; The vivid description of someone&#8217;s face or character; or, the description of feigned or imaginary characters.<\/li>\n<li>ethopoeia &#8211; The description and portrayal of a character (natural propensities, manners and affections, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>pragmatographia &#8211; Description of an action; a reported narrative.<\/li>\n<li>chronographia &#8211; Vivid representation of a certain historical or recurring time (such as a season).<\/li>\n<li>characterismus &#8211; Description of a person&#8217;s character.<\/li>\n<li>effictio &#8211; A verbal depiction of someone&#8217;s body, often from head to toe.<\/li>\n<li>icon &#8211; A figure which paints the likeness of a person by imagery.<\/li>\n<li>peristasis &#8211; A description of attendant circumstances.<\/li>\n<li>chorographia &#8211; The description of a particular nation.<\/li>\n<li>geographia &#8211; Vivid representation of the earth.<\/li>\n<li>anemographia &#8211; Description of the wind.<\/li>\n<li>dendrographia &#8211; Description of a tree.<\/li>\n<li>topothesia &#8211; Description of an imaginary place.<\/li>\n<li>hydrographia &#8211; Description of water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/rhetoric.byu.edu\/Figures\/Groupings\/of%20Description.htm\">Figures of Description<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These words might come in handy someday: topographia &#8211; Description of a place. astrothesia &#8211; A vivid description of stars. prosopographia &#8211; The vivid description of someone&#8217;s face or character; or, the description of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}