imagery: sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. May use terms related to the five senses: visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory imagery. May be used with other figures of speech, especially metaphor ans simile, to create a strong, unified sensory impression.
"I would crawl into this bag, and there sleep on the cold, damp, clay floor, with my head in and feet out. My feet have been so cracked with the frost, that the pen with which I am writing might be laid in the gashes."
-Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
Douglass uses imagery in his description of slave life. Here he uses tactile and visual imagery to help the reader, or audience, understand the poverty and maltreatment of slaves. He uses words such as "clay", "damp", and "cold" to make the reader feel the uncomfortable effects these circumstances had on his body. Douglass wants the reader to experience through his autobiography and to want to do something about the predicament.
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