Have you ever read a book that described a scene so vividly that it almost felt real? This is called imagery; one of the many literary devices that authors use to enhance the reader’s experience. In the short story “A Kind of Murder”, Hugh Pentecost uses these devices effectively to augment and make the reader’s experience more authentic. One of the ways that Pentecost makes effective use of these is to depict events in great detail. For example, in the text, when Old Beaver walks into the study hall when the boys are being disrespectful, “The study hall was quiet as a tomb. But the silence was frighteningly loud, and the place was littered with paper” (Pentecost, 187). In this piece of evidence, he uses imagery, simile and oxymoron to portray