Describing speech is explaining how something is said. e.g. Bob shouted "Ahhh!" Describing speech is a dramatic device in stories or other descriptive text and the use of different words is used to add variation to dialogue and help the reader imagine the speech.
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“Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.”
—Naomi Weisstein, U.S. psychologist, feminist, and author. Psychology Constructs the Female (1969)
“So hills and valleys into singing break;
And though poor stones have neither speech nor tongue,
While active winds and streams both run and speak,
Yet stones are deep in admiration.
Thus praise and prayer here beneath the Sun
Make lesser mornings when the great are done.”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)