Illustration vs. Anecdote — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Illustration and Anecdote
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Illustration
An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in print and digital published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films. An illustration is typically created by an illustrator.
Anecdote
An anecdote is a brief, revealing account of an individual person or an incident: "a story with a point," such as to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative or to characterize by delineating a specific quirk or trait. Occasionally humorous, anecdotes differ from jokes because their primary purpose is not simply to provoke laughter but to reveal a truth more general than the brief tale itself.Anecdotes may be real or fictional; the anecdotal digression is a common feature of literary works and even oral anecdotes typically involve subtle exaggeration and dramatic shape designed to entertain the listener.
Illustration
A picture illustrating a book, newspaper, etc.
An illustration of a yacht
Anecdote
A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
He told anecdotes about his job
Illustration
The action or fact of illustrating something
By way of illustration, I refer to the following case
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Anecdote
A short account of an interesting or humorous incident.
Illustration
The act of illustrating or the state of being illustrated
Concepts that would benefit from illustration.
An idea that lends itself to illustration.
Anecdote
Pl. an·ec·dotes or an·ec·do·ta (-dōtə) Secret or hitherto undivulged particulars of history or biography.
Illustration
A picture or image that is used to decorate or clarify a text.
Anecdote
A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.
Tell an anecdote
Relate a short anecdote
Illustration
An example that is used to clarify or explain something.
Anecdote
An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
Illustration
(Obsolete) Illumination.
Anecdote
A previously untold secret account of an incident.
Illustration
The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct;
Anecdote
(ambitransitive) To tell anecdotes (about).
Illustration
The state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
Anecdote
Unpublished narratives.
Illustration
Something which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
Anecdote
A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.
Illustration
A picture designed to decorate a publication, or elucidate a literary work.
The illustration showing the water cycle made it much easier to understand for the children.
The sleeve of the band's new CD includes illustrations from deceased former members.
Anecdote
Short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Illustration
A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)
Illustration
The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
Illustration
That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
Illustration
A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
Illustration
Artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
Illustration
Showing by example
Illustration
An item of information that is representative of a type;
This patient provides a typical example of the syndrome
There is an example on page 10
Illustration
A visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand
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