Description vs. Imagery — What's the Difference?

Description is the pattern of narrative development that aims to make vivid a place, object, character, or group. Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration.

Part of the figurative language in a literary work, whereby the author uses vivid images to describe a phenomenon

A spoken or written account of a person, object, or event

Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

A type or class of people or things

Visual images collectively

The act, process, or technique of describing.

A set of mental pictures or images.

A statement or an account describing something

The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.

A pictorial representation

The use of expressive or evocative images in art, literature, or music.

A kind or sort

A group or body of related images, as in a painting or poem.

A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

Representative images, particularly statues or icons.

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

The art of making such images.

A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.

(Psychology) A technique in behavior therapy in which the patient uses pleasant fantasies to relax and counteract anxiety.

(taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.

The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.

(linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.

Imitation work.

(linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.

Images in general, or en masse.

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

(figuratively) Unreal show; imitation; appearance.

A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.

A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.

Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

A statement that represents something in words

The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.

The act of describing something

Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.

Sort or variety;

The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.

Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

The ability to form mental images of things or events;