{"id":7849,"date":"2013-09-06T23:23:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T23:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=7849"},"modified":"2025-11-28T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:13:00","slug":"rhetorical-strategy-of-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/rhetorical-strategy-of-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhetorical Strategy of Description"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rhetorical Strategy of Description<\/h1>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Rhetorical Strategy of Description\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_NWZSqzL7HoY\"><div id=\"lyte_NWZSqzL7HoY\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FNWZSqzL7HoY%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Rhetorical Strategy of Description<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NWZSqzL7HoY\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FNWZSqzL7HoY%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Rhetorical Strategy of Description\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion\"><input id=\"transcript\" type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler_button\" \/><label for=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/label>\n<div class=\"spoiler\" id=\"transcript-spoiler\">\n<p>A description is a detailed record of the sensory perceptions of some person, place, or thing.<\/p>\n<p><b>In many cases, an author will seek to make a point through their descriptions.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Consider if a writer wrote about the way a rose smells, or the way hot pavement feels on bare feet, or the sound of your mother&#8217;s voice. All of those would be forms of description. The reason all of those would be forms of description is because if a writer wrote about these things, then they would be providing a detailed record of the sensory perceptions of some person, place, or thing.<\/p>\n<p>If a writer wrote about the way a rose smells, the writer would be talking about the sensory perception of smell to a person. If they wrote about the way hot pavement feels on bare feet, they&#8217;d be talking about the sensory perception of touch to whoever has the bare feet. They might be talking about the sound of your mother&#8217;s voice. They&#8217;re talking about the sensory perception of hearing. They&#8217;re talking about them in terms of whoever is hearing their mother&#8217;s voice.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes an author will use short descriptions to give the reader a sense of the emotional content of the topic. It&#8217;s important as you&#8217;re reading to evaluate the descriptive details the writer is using. There are a couple of things you should look for when evaluating these details.<\/p>\n<p><b>1. You should make sure that the details advance the author&#8217;s point.<\/b> If the details aren&#8217;t advancing the author&#8217;s point, then they&#8217;re irrelevant, cumbersome to the reader, and they&#8217;re distracting from the main point that the author is trying to make.<\/p>\n<p><b>2. The descriptive detail should also make the text more enjoyable.<\/b> If the descriptive details don&#8217;t make the text more enjoyable, that means the facts are probably irrelevant or there are just too many of them; they&#8217;re becoming cumbersome to the reader and distracting from the author&#8217;s main point.<\/p>\n<p>You as the reader should be constantly evaluating, whether the descriptive details included by the author advance the author&#8217;s point and make the text more enjoyable, or if they are just distracting and irrelevant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhetorical Strategy of Description<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-7849","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"page_type-video","6":"page_domain-english"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48779,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7849\/revisions\/48779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}