One of the most vivid examples of imagery Marquart uses is when describing the roads of North Dakota. She paints the picture of “a road so lonely, treeless, and devoid of rises and curves in places that it will feel like one long-held pedal steel guitar note” (Marquart). Her diction creates imagery almost tangible to the reader. Therefore, readers are able to immerse themselves in how it would feel to live in the Midwest. Another fitting example of imagery is when Marquart describes a relatable pop culture narrative.
Imagery can feasibly be known as used quite a bit in Jeanne DuPrau’s books. This tool helps give the author a technique to send an image into the mind of the reader. Such an example of this would have been in The City of Sparks in the quote “It was a bigger flame than Lina had ever seen, like a terrible orange hand, reaching up and down.” You can see Duprau uses imagery incredibly well. She describes the fire as a “terrible orange hand” and also describing it as an insanely big flame never seen before.
One example of imagery is, “He pulled the door wider to let her see. The cold wind blew and the thin rain fell upon the soil and the figure stood looking at them with distant eyes. The old women held the doorway” (Bradbury Page 159.) In this quote, the figurative language that’s used helps the reader think and imagine the scene taking place, a little better than just saying “they both stared at the figure.” The vivid details such as “the cold wind blew” and “the thin rain fell upon the soil” helped the true feeling of this scene pop out.
For example, “he has the casual look of a mugger, alert under hooded eyes.” This is used as imagery in order to be able to identify and explain these characters in the narrators perspective. A statement like, “I am wearing dark fur, the whole skin of an animal take and used,” is also used as a metaphor to show the contrast the narrator makes between the dark furred animal and the man.
Imagery is used throughout, in order to engage the reader and assist them in understanding things from Saul’s perspective. For example, the sense of sight was touched on when it describes the string of light bulbs, the shadows of the ice and the rocks and spindly trees. It creates a mental image with the use of sophisticated adjectives such as humped, spindly and eerie. Also, the description of the smell is very detailed by saying that it was a “potent mix” of various unpleasing scents. This proves that imagery is a device that is essential in helping the audience imagine the setting, make connections and hold interest.
The types of imagery Emmerson uses is visual imagery by offering up a sight of what he explored at the time.
We see the use of imagery when the announcer for the radio station is reporting the Olympic race (Hillenbrand 34). The imagery shown there is a great representation of how to show people what is happening without being there to witness it. Putting the picture in your mind of the Olympics, the kids running to get what they all have ever wanted: the gold medal. Another example of imagery is “A Dead Body Breathing” (Hillenbrand 185). This is a great example showing how Louie is alive and breathing but he should be dead.
This is The Twilight Zone.” As if this episode weren’t already eerie enough. Even in the form of a film, you start to think of what is to come. That is just what they were thinking back in this time period, they never knew what to expect or what was to really
In Beowulf, there is a couple of good examples of imagery. Whether it is in the battles that Beowulf goes through, in just the description of scenes, or in his farewell. When he said farewell to his followers in beowulf's last battle before he goes to fight against the dragon in the cave where the dragon was awaken when protecting the treasures. An example of imagery is Beowulf is “I swam/ in the blackness of night, hunting monsters/ out of the ocean, and killing them one/ By one.” In this part of beowulf i imagine the heroic beowulf swimming in darkness fighting with monsters that he hunted out of the ocean killing them each one by one.
As we most of us know that every pictures has tells us a story, where it has some means behind it. To prove my point, I will give an example from HCP and AP paper. In my first multi-modality HCP paper, I did not have a lot of visual images that connected to my argument, the multi-modality images I included in my paper was hardly even connected to my argument as it does not tell anything to the reader why those images were there in my paper as they did not seem that effective as it should have been. For my AP project, I try to include very effective images that would help me to make my paper stronger such as few charts of my statistics and different graphs that would show how the problem has affected; therefore, that would give the reader and the audience visual image of what I am trying to argue in my paper and it will also help the reader and the audience
Imagery is a literary device that uses descriptive wording to put a vivid image of a scenario in your mind. Dickens uses imagery to describe the scenery and the change in Scrooge’s physical appearance throughout the course of the story. “eezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self- contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.
Imagery allows a reader to imagine the events of a story within their mind through mental images. Imagery can describe how something looks, a sound, a feeling, a taste, or a smell. Imagery is especially important when the author is describing a character or a setting. The short story The Man In The Black Suit by Stephen King has several excellent examples of imagery.
In the story Gaston, William Saroyan uses the peach to symbolize that no one is perfect, and everyone is flawed. The story is about a girl and her father, and they walked to a market and bought a box full of peaches, one of which was flawed. When they arrived home, they father ate the flawed peach, which has many connections to the real world. For example, if you were to buy a box of peaches, and one was flawed, most likely you would throw it out like any other person, however, the dad would not. Many people would find this disturbing, however, in this case the author chose to have the peach resemble how no one is perfect, whether it is a peach, person, or even an animal.
“A Short Guide to Imagery, Symbolism, and Figurative Language Imagery” describes imagery as “a writer or speaker’s use of words or figures of speech to create a vivid mental picture or physical sensation”(Clark). In the short story, “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin uses nature imagery to portray the journey of emotions that Mrs. Mallard experiences
