The author uses the Imagery technique to establish disturbing/unsettling effects. For example, the excerpt/ reading says ” Rammed it deep in his crater eye.” In other words, this quote describes the Cyclops as a huge monster because of the way the author described it.
All throughout this book, Capote used imagery, for example “...simply an aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by the main-line tracks of the Santa Fe Railroad, a haphazard hamlet bounded on the south by a brown stretch of the Arkansas (pronounced ‘Ar-kan-sas’) River, on the north by a highway, Route 50, and on the east and west by prairie lands and what fields” (3). By using imagery at the start of the book, it helps you visualize the basic layout of the town of Holcomb, where the murders had taken place and where most of the story takes place. Imagery throughout the story makes you feel as if you are there in the story, resulting in a better flowing and understood story. An example of imagery that stood out to me was whenever Capote stated, “Here was a picture of the two together bathing naked in a diamond-watered colorado creek, the brother, a pot-bellied, sun blackened cupid, clutching his sister’s hand and giggling..”.
According to Amnesty International, more than 500 people die each day due to gun violence. In the poetry novel “Long Way Down”, the main character Will, mourns the loss of his brother who is shot and killed. Will goes to find and kill Shawn’s killer. He is then visited by multiple ghosts in an elevator. The author Jason Reynolds uses imagery, repetition, and similes in order to show the mourning mood that is represented throughout the book.
Connell uses imagery to show the reader how intense and fearful Rainsford feels in the story. For instance, Zaroff first look to Rainsford was “menacing look” (17) This quote is imagery because it describing the look in his eyes did not change and it was a menacing look also. Another example for imagery would be when “Ivan conducted him was in many ways remarkable.”
Imagery is a way of writing that the author gives you visual descriptive writing or figurative language. One quote that stood out to me was “There would be other Sheila Mant’s in life, other fish, and though I came close once or twice, it was these secrets, hidden tuggings in the night that claimed me, and I never made that mistake again. ”(41) This quote has a lot of meaning in this story
Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” is filled repeatedly with imagery. These descriptive phrases of imagery provide vivid details that make the story easy to imagine, so real and visual. Bradbury’s writing comes alive to the reader. This short story is about a peaceful man, walking by himself, who is picked up by the police and thrown in jail. Imagery helped readers understand the setting of “The pedestrian.”
The Things They Carried: In the beginning the story, we are introduced to Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, the one who carried the letters from Martha. The narrator explains that the letters that Jimmy has are not love letters, but dreams that they are love letters. The narrator explains more about Martha and why Jimmy is interested in her. The narrator states that Martha is an English major and a possible virgin.
“A green lovely forest, a lovely river, a purple mountain, high voices singing, and Rima” (Bradbury 5). This quote shows the extreme change between the hot African veldt, and the mysterious imaginary forest of love and paradise. Imagery is used many times in the story for the same purpose. “The lions on three sides of them, in the yellow veldt grass, padding through the dry straw, rumbling and roaring in their throats” (Bradbury 10) captures the suspense the characters feel and giving it to the reader to make the story more exciting. Imagery is used repetitively to keep giving the senses and suspense to make the story feel real.
There are many great examples of figurative language in the way the author crafts his sentences in this passage. In the first sentence I like when the author, Richard Wright, uses this hyperbole: “ a pocket full of money that melted into bottomless hunger of the household”. I like how he uses this hyperbole to show how the money Richard has earned from his new job, immediately goes to pay for food for his starving family, this hyperbole really shows how desperate Richard’s family is for food. Again in the next sentence he uses a nice hyperbole with the same word but a slightly different use; “even Aunt Addies hostility melted temporarily”.
Although these lines are also an instance of characterization, they are an excellent example of imagery as well. King’s description supplies us with a very distinct mental image of the man in the black suit, that the reader can continue to visualize as they read the
In this paragraph I will be talking about how the story and photograph have a similar technique. A technique that is similar and used throughout the story is figurative language. This is shown in the caption of the photograph when it says, “As the only window to the future”. This is an example of a figurative language because there aren’t windows that lead to your future.
Together, all of these examples of imagery develop the idea of the animal behavior of the story’s characters by depicting the atrocities and strident conditions the inmates face throughout the
A device Langston Hughes can use very efficiently. It’s one of the many things that put him above other poets. There are many examples of his efficiency in using imagery. “My old man died in a fine big house”(Cross, 9.) Langston is adding significant detail to the text to give us an idea of where his father died.
Throughout the novel Susan Hill creates fear around Arthur Kipps which gives a chilling sense to the reader that reflects the feelings that Arthur witnesses throughout his experiences. The three main creators of fear during the course of the novel are The Woman in Black, Eel Marsh House and the wind over the marshes. Hill creates the majority of Arthur’s fear during the time he spent at Eel Marsh House, ‘There were perhaps fifty old gravestones, most of them covered in patches of greenish – yellow lichen and moss’, Hill creates a sinister atmosphere that represents death over the period of time that Arthur stayed at the house. Furthermore, Hill uses hyperbole to heighten the sense of fear and isolation that Arthur is feeling as it suggests that he is surrounded by the supernatural by the use of the word, ‘Gravestones’.
Another use of imagery was the whip itself. This whip could have represented society and how it reacts to people like Jay and his sister. It stated that “A whip wasn’t something you rode, it was something to hurt you, something that came down hard on prisoner’s backs and left them scarred” (Hemley, Whipped 114). The imagery in this quote is spectacular. It showed how Jay thought, and made me picture a helpless man being beaten.
