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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Famous quotes containing the words describing and/or speech:
“In describing someone’s character, I reveal my own.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“What is this conversation, now secular,
A speech not mine yet speaking for me in
The heaving jelly of my tribal air?
It rises in the throat, it climbs the tongue,
It perches there for secret tutelage....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)