The description is one of the narrative and language forms, perhaps the most commonly used due to its ease and accessibility. We understand by description, in general terms, a narration that is based on the detailed enumeration of the different elements that make up an object, a situation, a phenomenon, a feeling, etc. Describing means, precisely, recounting the elements that make up what we want to describe.
One of the objectives of the description as a rhetorical or discursive mode is to allow the one who acts as a reader or as part of the audience to receive fully and as accurately as possible the way in which a situation, an element or a person is. Thus, a description can focus not only on things or elements visible to the naked eye (for example, if a person is blonde or brunette) but also seek to raise underlying elements (for example, the function of an object or the moral traits of a person). person). Each descriptive element that is added to the narrative will be useful to know the described object more and better.
Typically, the description is used in all aspects of life, not just in the literary realm. While in this case it has an artistic character (in many cases also fictitious, depending on the type of work), in other cases the artistic can be left aside. This is when we talk about descriptions made in particular situations, for example, in crime or offense situations (those descriptions made by the police and which must always be as exact as possible); scientific descriptions (which are based on the description and recount of empirically observable facts, have a much more specific language as well as being inaccessible to the rest of the people), etc. Whatever the case, the description always allows to establish the elements or components of what is described in order to allow it to be understood and analyzed more completely.
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