The auditory aspect of prose writing should not be neglected, and forms part of the larger topic of iconicity or mimesis in language.
Iconicity, the ability of a thing to refer beyond itself, is regarded as the key to understanding the meaning of nature scenes.
Iconicity is an analytical tool developed in the study of natural languages almost two decades ago.
The iconicity of distance is the tendency for the conceptual distance between concepts to be reflected in the linguistic distance between the linguistic expressions of these concepts.
