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. Think of purpose, figurative language, imagery, and tone as you read the classic essays assigned for this week. The text of the essay for which he is known is included here. It is also on pages 442-444 of your anthology of readings . If you are one of the students who work on their own toward becoming educated, and if you are in the Florida panhandle, you may want to take advantage of the resources below.