Imagery is a literary device that is used by poets, novelists, and other writers to help create images in the readers’ minds. It often uses figurative and metaphorical language to boost a reader’s experience through their senses. Imagery allows a writer to picture the whole story instead of just bluntly describing it. Here are some examples that will help you understand the use of imagery.
<em>The forest was dark and dim.</em>
<em> - </em>Here, the adjectives ‘dark” and “dim” are used to give a visual image of the forest that the writer is talking about.
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<em>He screamed for help as the mugger approached.</em>
- Here, “screamed” appeals to the readers’ auditory sense.
In a majority of the cases, imagery is assisted by a figure of speech like metaphor, personification, simile, and onomatopoeia to describe the story more vividly.
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