dendrographia

	Creating an illusion of reality through vivid description of a tree.

Examples
	Its trunk was but a wizened arm, its branches bony fingers grasping vainly at the winter sky.
Related Figures
	enargia
Related Topics of Invention
	Subject and Adjuncts Since description typically takes the form of delineating the attributes of something, it is therefore the use of this topic of invention, by which one identifies the characteristics (or adjuncts) of a given subject.
See Also
	Progymnasmata: Description

	Sources:	Primary sources

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Gideon O. Burton, Brigham Young University
Please cite "Silva Rhetoricae" (rhetoric.byu.edu)

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den-dro-graf'-i-a	from Gk. dendron “tree” and grapho “to write”