Dendrographia (den-dro-graf’-ia): Creating an illusion of reality through vivid description of a tree.
What is it that grows up so tall–so tall it becomes part of the skyline–cutting black shadows out of early evening and setting them along the edges of my fields?
Some have needles. Some have leaves. Pine and maple–all green in daylight’s sunny bath. The trees’ shadows mark time–as they lengthen, sunset begins to set and the trees’ shadows blanket the fields with rising darkness and a sunset backdrop filtering gently through the trees, making halos of diminishing pink and golden light.
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
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