Imagery

Imagery

Definition: The using of words that makes the reader imagine stuff in their heads through the words.

Example:

The winter evening settles down

With smell of steaks in passageways.

Six o'clock.

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

And now a gusty shower wraps

The grimy scraps

Of withered leaves about your feet

And newspapers from vacant lots;

The showers beat

On broken blinds and chimney-pots,

And at the corner of the street

A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

And then the lighting of the lamps.

 by T. S. Eliot

Significance:
It helps the reader to understand the poems more easily by picturing it in their heads through the words