Enargia is the general term for employing description within rhetoric (see also the various Greek and Latin synonyms for this, below). Various kinds of description are also specified with individual terms.

General Figures of Description:

• topographia
  Description of a place.
• astrothesia
  A vivid description of stars
• prosopographia
  The vivid description of someone's face or character; or, the description of feigned or imaginary characters.
• ethopoeia
  The description and portrayal of a character (natural propensities, manners and affections, etc.)
• pragmatographia
  Description of an action; a reported narrative.
• chronographia
  Vivid representation of a certain historical or recurring time (such as
  a season)
• characterismus
  Description of a person's character.
• effictio
  A verbal depiction of someone's body, often from head to toe.
• icon
  A figure which paints the likeness of a person by imagery.
• peristasis
  A description of attendant circumstances.
• chorographia
  The description of a particular nation.
• geographia
  Vivid representation of the earth.
  
• anemographia
  Description of the wind.
• dendrographia
  Description of a tree.
• topothesia
  Description of an imaginary place
• hydrographia
  Description of water.

Related Figures

• Figures of Place
  Many of the figures of description are also figures describing a place.
• Figures of Pathos
  The vividness of description is often used to affect the emotions; thus, many of the figures of description are also figures of pathos.
• Figures of Amplification

Related Topics of Invention

• Subject and Adjuncts
  Since description typically takes the form of delineating the attributes of something, it thereby employs this topic of invention, by which one identifies the characteristics (or adjuncts) of a given subject.
• Division
  Often description takes the form of dividing out and naming the parts of that which is described, and therefore this topic of invention is employed within descriptions.

• Progymnasmata: Description