Imagery Essay

Grant, I hadn't seen the word triptych before and wish I had looked it up before reading the story rather than after, it is an apt title. I enjoyed the story. You have some fantastic imagery throughout the piece. The image of his friend painted black and “being photographed by an older woman with buzzed hair wearing boots and suspenders,” I felt captured her essence and did an excellent job setting the tone for how she interacts with the world and the boys. The image you used of her death is…

meaningful purpose, just as a member of a marching band is vital to the form of a football game’s halftime show. Margaret Atwood agrees: “Life of Pi is a terrific book. It’s fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore.” The imagery presented in the Life of Pi was…

Imagery is a vital component to any successful and popular literary work. By using his imagistic style, Fitzgerald brought the setting of The Great Gatsby to life. This descriptive language not only brought the novel to life, but also helped establish certain motifs in key points of the story. The diction that Fitzgerald applies allows the reader to mentally reach a new level of understanding of The Great Gatsby. When combined, these techniques allow Fitzgerald to explore and convey different…

“The Locket,” was a beautiful written piece that was easy to understand and phenomenal to read. "The Locket", utilizes antithetical imagery and setting to represent different outlooks on life and to demonstrate that love transcends at any circumstance. When the story ended, one will want to read more and more because of how unpredictable and suspenseful it was. In the story of “the Locket,” one of the feelings a reader might have while reading the ending is sadness. The reader would feel sad…

the sailors could get on the boat safely and survive. Within his first few weeks of being on the boat the zebra and hyena both were eaten by the tiger and it was just Pi and the tiger, Richard Parker on the boat for over 200 days. Martel’s use of imagery and comparison convey the mental and physical strength it took for Pi to survive on a lifeboat with not much food or water…

Well used imagery can be as vivid as a one million paintings. Kate Chopin uses imagery throughout many of her timeless short stories. Kate Chopin was a short story author based out of Louisiana. Chopin was born on February 8, 1850, in St. Louis, MO and later died on August 22, 1904. Throughout her life Chopin was a very well-known women’s rights activist. Kate Chopin was also very against the abuse and enslavement of African Americans. Chopin uses amazing imagery throughout the short story…

America owning a pet the questions that arises from owners is do other animals have mental imagery? Mental imagery exists in household pets such as: dogs and birds. Mental imagery, however, is not limited to just household pets, there is also evidence that it is present in wild animals such as: dolphins and bats. The way that animals use mental imagery is different than that of humans use. Humans use mental imagery every day in any possible situation. If someone were to be asked did they leave…

In the book “Othello” Shakespeare often uses animal imagery to illustrate Iago’s manipulation and control over other characters. Three points that prove the use of animal imagery to prove Iago’s superiority over the others is how Iago refers to Othello as a “Black Ram”, how Iago also refers to Othello as a “Barbary horse” and how Iago’s frequent use of animal imagery has now lead the characters to use animal imagery towards themselves. Shakespeare uses the help of animals to portray each of…

career Toomer instituted imagery in his poems to convey messages regarding racial equality. One of Toomer’s most famous poems…

“The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe wrote about one of his fears in his story “The Cask of Amontillado”. Imagery plays a big part in this story. It helps the reader visualize the events taking place in the story. Poe uses imagery to add fear and suspense to the story. Edgar Allan Poe uses imagery when he explains about leading Fortunato to the dungeon. “Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris.”(87-88) This…