In this excerpt from James Joyce's short story "Araby," what literary device does the author use to describe the scene? We walke
d through the flaring streets, jostled by drunken men and bargaining women, amid the curses of labourers, the shrill litanies of shop-boys who stood on guard by the barrels of pigs' cheeks, the nasal chanting of street-singers, who sang a come-all-you about O'Donovan Rossa, or a ballad about the troubles in our native land. personification simile metaphor imagery
Explanation: Imagery is a literary device that consists in the use of figurative language or detailed descriptions in order to evoke the senses of the reader and to create a mental picture. In the given excerpt from James Joyce's "Araby" we can see a clear example of imagery, use to describe the scene with phrases like "flaring streets," "drunken men and bargaining women," "who sang a come-all-you about O'Donovan Rossa," etc, as we can see, these phrases evoke the senses like hearing and sight.
