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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“In describing someone’s character, I reveal my own.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)