Dendographia (den-dro-graf’-ia): Creating an illusion of reality through vivid description of a tree.
Trees! Tall trees. Small trees. All trees. Dark bark maybe grey, birch bark black and white; day and night with leaves–leaves hanging by their thread-thin stems feeding light to sap, and in the sunny breeze of dawn’s mortal moment they swarm like clouds of butterflies waving winged shadows over tangled bumpy stumpy roots reaching deep beneath the soddy earth. The smell of pine. The womb of woods. The trees!
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
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