Illustration vs. Anecdote

Illustrationnoun

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.

Anecdotenoun

A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.

Illustrationnoun

That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.

Anecdotenoun

An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.

Illustrationnoun

A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.

Anecdotenoun

A previously untold secret account of an incident.

Illustrationnoun

A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)

Anecdotenoun

Unpublished narratives.

Illustrationnoun

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.

Anecdotenoun

A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

Illustrationnoun

That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.

Anecdotenoun

short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

Illustrationnoun

A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.

Anecdotenoun

a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person

‘he told anecdotes about his job’;

Illustrationnoun

artwork that helps make something clear or attractive

Anecdotenoun

an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay

‘his wife's death has long been the subject of rumour and anecdote’;

Illustrationnoun

showing by example

Anecdotenoun

the depiction of a minor narrative incident in a painting

‘the use of inversions of hierarchy, anecdote, and paradox by Magritte, Dali, and others’;

Illustrationnoun

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’;

Anecdote

An anecdote is a brief, revealing account of an individual person or an incident: 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.

‘a story with a point,’;

Illustrationnoun

a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand

Illustrationnoun

a picture illustrating a book, newspaper, etc.

‘an illustration of a yacht’;

Illustrationnoun

the action or fact of illustrating something

‘by way of illustration, I refer to the following case’;

Illustrationnoun

an illustrative example

‘this accident is a graphic illustration of the disaster that's waiting to happen’;

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.