Dendographia (den-do-graf’-i-a): Creating an illusion of reality through vivid description of a tree.
The hillside was clearcut, except for one wounded fir tree wobbling in the wind; slowly dying in the bleak twisted mess that used to be a forest.
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
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