Literary notes about Embellished (AI summary)
The word embellished is often employed in literature to indicate the act of adorning or enhancing something, whether it be a physical object or a narrative. Authors describe canvasses decorated with reproduced images [1] or walls graced by exquisite paintings [2], while in other contexts, it conveys the idea of a text that has been elaborated with additional, sometimes exaggerated, detail [3]. In some works the term even extends to the language itself, suggesting a style punctuated by elegant expressions or rhetorical flourishes [4] that imbue a story with added drama. Thus, whether referring to tangible ornamentation or to the figurative "dressing up" of facts, embellished functions as a versatile descriptor in literature [5].
- Occasionally, also, the better classes embellished their canvas by pasting pictures from Harper’s Weekly on them.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain - Two or three exquisite paintings of children, in various attitudes, embellished the wall.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - [Pg 18] as possibly the narrative of some event which has been imaginatively embellished, and intermingled with details which we call supernatural.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar - By 'language embellished,' I mean language into which rhythm, 'harmony,' and song enter.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle - You may also translate history, in so far as it is not embellished with oratory, which is poetical.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson by James Boswell