Descriptive text consists of the actual verbal representation of an object, person, landscape, animal, emotion, and practically anything else that can be put into words.
This type of text intends for the reader to obtain an exact image of the reality that we are transmitting in words, a kind of “verbal painting”.
It is very important to differentiate between two types of description: the technical and the literary. There are many differences between the two:
– In the description technical it is essential that objectivity is always respected so that the information is not distorted by any point of view or opinion. The language that will be used is cold, with technical words that only aim to explain a characteristic of what is intended to be represented.
– In the description literary the opposite occurs, prioritizing the author's subjectivity and the use of words with the added search of generating a pleasant aesthetic. It is also important to clarify that the reality that the writer describes to us may have come from his imagination, and be perfectly a descriptive text, given that, after all, it is a reality: his.
An essential feature, which applies to both types of descriptions, is that they are timeless texts. This means that what we describe, at the moment of doing so, does not move in time but ratherwe stop for a moment to talk about it as a static whole.
The description process is divided into three stages. The final phase is present what was defined in the first two. The first, then, consists of observing reality, carefully analyzing all the details that we can recognize so that later, in the second stage, we can order that information. We will do this so that the text can be interpreted clearly, organizing the text in a logical way (from the most important to the least important or vice versa; from the general to the particular or vice versa; from the form to the content or vice versa).
