What is a front description and what is a side description?

Positive description: refers to the direct description of the appearance, psychology, movements and language of the characters.

Also known as "direct description". One of the description techniques of the article is opposite to "profile description". It mainly refers to the portrait, psychology, language, action and frontal description of characters, generally including static and dynamic description, virtual and real description, color rendering description and observation angle change description.

Five description methods of point-surface combination description; A direct description of a character's portrait, language, movements and psychology. (also known as true writing)

Profile description: Profile description, also called indirect description, means that in literary creation, the author expresses the object to be described by describing the people or environment around him, making it stand out, that is, indirectly portrays the object to be described.

In general, the portrayal of characters in literary works often adopts the method of positive description, that is, directly through the description of portraits, language, movements, demeanor and psychology, to express the character, conduct and skills of characters. However, sometimes with the help of some side descriptions, the artistic effect of positive description can often be irreplaceable or difficult to achieve.

It is a supplement to the positive description. The twists and turns in the profile description of characters can stimulate readers' imagination, enrich the characters and achieve the effect of showing them one by one.

Example:

Positive description:

This man has a strong physique.

This man is very tall.

This man hasn't bathed for several days, and he stinks.

Personal data description:

Because of his size, thieves never dare to talk to him.

Ordinary people always look up when talking to him.

People around him walked away with their noses covered when they passed him.