Enargia is the general term for employing description within rhetoric (see also the various Greek and Latin synonyms for this, below). Various kinds of description are also specified with individual terms.
Figures of Place (Many of the figures of description are also figures describing a place.)
Figures of Pathos (The vividness of description is often used to affect the emotions; thus, many of the figures of description are also figures of pathos.)
Subject and Adjuncts (Since description typically takes the form of delineating the attributes of something, it thereby employs this topic of invention, by which one identifies the characteristics (or adjuncts) of a given subject.)
Division (Often description takes the form of dividing out and naming the parts of that which is described, and therefore this topic of invention is employed within descriptions.)