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How to describe the appearance?

1. Language description

Words speak from the heart, and the characters' words are the easiest to "reveal" the inner secrets of the characters, the most flexible and direct to show the characters' personality, and the most fully and meticulously expose the inner world of the characters. Therefore, the language description of characters is an important means to portray characters.

Language description should reflect the personality characteristics of the characters. Because of the differences caused by age, occupation, identity, age and other factors, people speak in different ways. Language description is to grasp the language that can express the personality of the characters and write "this one" for the readers to hear and see. Language description should be concise and decent, not sloppy, and inconsistent with the identity of the characters.

Language description is mainly manifested in dialogue description. Refers to a part or parts that describe a person's appearance (face, facial features), expression, body shape, clothing, posture, manner, etc. Use vivid and concrete language.

2. The appearance description does not need to write a full picture. It focuses on expressing the personality of the characters. The description of people's appearance is also called portrait description, which describes the appearance and characteristics of people accurately, vividly and vividly, and reveals the readers' ideological quality, mental outlook and personality characteristics through appearance description. Its function is not only to outline the external appearance of the characters, but also to convey the "spirit" by "shape", that is, to reveal the character through some external characteristics of the characters. It often focuses on characters' faces, figures and clothes to show their identity, demeanor, charm and expression. Appearance description: a description method to reveal the character through the description of appearance, expression, posture, clothing and tone. Expression description is different from appearance description. It depicts people's facial expressions and can highlight the characteristics of people. 2. Action description: a description method to reveal the character's character through personalized action and action description. 3. Language description: It is a description method to express and portray characters through personalized monologues (soliloquies) or dialogues (conversations with others). 4. Psychological description: It is a description method to describe the inner character characteristics of characters by analyzing their psychological activities (such as inner feelings, intentions, wishes, thoughts, ideological struggles, etc.). ).

1, profile description, through some things, some people's third-person reports, express a certain character of the protagonist. Praise from others is always more convincing than your own, hehe.

2. You can also start with the tone of the action or its abnormal words and deeds, and only write the mental outlook, without making specific facial expressions, clothes and other descriptions, which makes people feel that this person is in front of them.

3, if the specific description, it is best to use metaphor, extension, otherwise it will be too backward.

Generally speaking, writing is illusory and unrealistic; Focus on the inside, light on the outside. If you catch a bright spot and write like this, you will certainly write well.