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Definition of Imagery
Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines from Robert Frost's poem "After Apple-Picking" contain imagery that engages... read full definition
Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines from Robert Frost's poem "After... read full definition
Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines... read full definition
Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—Hyde's House:
In the first chapter, Enfield and Utterson pause on their walk to examine the door to Hyde’s house, and the narrative offers up some stark visual imagery:
[...] a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street. It [...] bore in every feature the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence. [...] Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on the panels; children kept shop upon the steps; the schoolboy had tried his knife on the moldings; and for close on a generation, no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages.
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Chapter 4
Explanation and Analysis—Some City in a Nightmare:
En route to Mr. Hyde’s secret house in Soho, a neighborhood known at this time for its criminality, Mr. Utterson observes an early morning fog settling over the district early on in Chapter 4, describing this mist with vivid imagery:
Unlock with LitCharts A+A great chocolate covered pall lowered over heaven [...] as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back end of evening; there it would be the glow of a rich, lurid brown [...]. The dismal quarter of Soho [...] seemed, in the lawyer’s eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.
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