Literary notes about VIVID (AI summary)
The term "vivid" is frequently employed to enhance the sensory and emotional intensity of a narrative. Authors use it to describe everything from striking visual details, like the luminous green of a painted house or the rich rendering of a thunderclap ([1], [2], [3]), to the intense, almost palpable emotional states that characters experience ([4], [5]). It also serves to make abstract ideas or fleeting moments concrete, imbuing them with a clarity that transforms a mere recollection or a dream into a powerful, lasting impression on the reader ([6], [7]). This usage gives language a dynamic, almost cinematic quality that draws readers deeper into the text.
- “That,” she said, pointing to the picture—a rather vivid chromo entitled, “Christ Blessing Little
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - “I nodded, pointed to the sun, and gave them such a vivid rendering of a thunderclap as startled them.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells - The house was a large, substantial affair, painted such a vivid green that the landscape seemed quite faded by contrast.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery - Her face had blushed a vivid scarlet, and she replied that her sense of duty obliged her to repulse me in spite of herself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Her recollections of the sensations of smell are very vivid.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - It was long before Mr. Tulliver got to sleep that night; and the sleep, when it came, was filled with vivid dreams.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
