You use vivid "close-up" Words to describe abstract ideas. Consider these examples:
Close-up naming by sight
General: the window
Descriptive: the stained glass window
General: the car
Descriptive: the red sports car
Close-up Sound
General: the noise
Descriptive: the soft tapping noise
Close-up texture
General: the orange peel
Descriptive: the dimpled orange peel
Close-up taste:
General: the Apple
Descriptive: the tart Apple
Close-up smell
General: the smell, the bad smell
Descriptive: the acrid smell
The term close-up just means use adjectives. It means make a reader see, hear, smell, taste, or touch in imagination or the reader's mind exactly what you are describing.
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