Read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects.Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, was one of the media stars of the First World War. The famous recruitment poster has him pointing straight at us in full uniform, finger in the foreground, handlebar moustache not far behind, with the words 'Your country needs YOU'.

The excerpt describes what Kitchener looks like in the poster and how he is posed: he points at the viewer, wears a full uniform, and has a handlebar moustache. These visual details make it a description. The words “Your country needs YOU” appear as part of the poster, but the excerpt’s main method is describing the image.

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