word picture

word picture

n (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a verbal description, esp a vivid one

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word picture - a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word-painting, picturedescription, verbal description - a statement that represents something in wordsepithet - descriptive word or phraseportrait, portraiture, portrayal - a word picture of a person's appearance and character