In the Harbrace , chapters one , two, and twenty-four. A 500-word descriptive essay. Because we cannot process language without visualizing it, authors and poets know they can cause us to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel. Visual imagery is the most common, and many instructors feel it is the most powerful. But sight is only one of five senses.
Abstractions are difficult to conceptualize without figurative language and imagery.
Remember your figurative language lessons from elementary school. Similes are introduced in fourth or fifth grade, and metaphors or personification shortly after that. Figurative language and imagery may be either objective or subjective. Subjective language involves emotions. Evaluate your history book, your latest novel or story read on a plane, each column or news story in your newspaper, etc.