Diction is the writer's word choice style. Imagery is writing in such a way that the reader forms a mental image of multiple senses not just visual.
In "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket," Jack Finney effectively creates suspense using both of these literary devices.
First, the imagery used, the mental image created for the reader serves to put the reader out on the window ledge with the main character, Tom Benecke. We can feel...
Glove...keyboard,...a snowflake or a chicken (chicken becuase chicks fly VEEEEEEEEEEEEERY briefly to study surroundings, they lie when alive when they lay eggs, and they run around even after their head gets chopped off.)....keyboard (space bar, enter key, etc)....an alarm(??????)....
OMG THIS WAS SO HARD!!!!! Do I still get credit even if not all correct?
1. "I said that I got lost."
2. "I said that it was a glorious view."
3. "My mom said that there is terrible weather."
4. "My mom said that my sister is a silly girl."
5. "I said that it is cold."
"He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. Often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges."
These sentences foreshadow his possession with Judy. The sentences say that he wanted things themselves and he liked the best of them.
