Chronographia is a rhetorical device that refers to a vivid description of a particular time of day, a season, or a moment in time. Writers use it to paint a detailed picture of when something is happening so that readers can feel the atmosphere and mood of that specific moment.
✅ Definition: A figure of description that depicts time in a detailed, picturesque, and often dramatic way.
✅ Example:
- “It was the gray hour before dawn, when the stars still trembled faintly in the fading night, and the first pale light of morning crept across the horizon.”
That’s chronographia—describing time so richly that the reader can almost see and feel it.
And there it is! Now go ahead and use chronographia in your CXC prep/ CSEC prep.
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