Read the excerpt from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller. She had read his account of Laura Bridgman, and remembered vaguely t
hat she was deaf and blind, yet had been educated. But she also remembered with a hopeless pang that Dr. Howe, who had discovered the way to teach the deaf and blind, had been dead many years. His methods had probably died with him; and if they had not, how was a little girl in a far-off town in Alabama to receive the benefit of them? Which words from the excerpt best show the author’s use of imagery? hopeless pang deaf and blind had discovered been educated
"But she also remembered with a hopeless pang that Dr. Howe, who had discovered the way to teach the deaf and blind, had been dead many years."
Explanation:
Imagery is a literary jargon which means describing something in great detail in a way that the characters, emotions are so real you can almost reach out and touch them.
The excerpt above shows the use of imagery to describe the emotion that Laura Bridgeman was feeling when she recalled the death of Dr Howe.
