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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
Key Examples in The Hound of the Baskervilles
Chapter 3
Explanation and Analysis—Bright, Glittering Eyes:
In Chapter 3, after describing the hound’s gigantic footprints, the story uses visual imagery to describe Holmes’s reaction:
[Holmes] leaned forward in his excitement and his eyes had the hard, dry glitter which shot from them when he was keenly interested.
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Chapter 6
Explanation and Analysis—Devonshire County:
In Chapter 6, Watson uses rich visual imagery when he describes his, Dr. Mortimer's, and Sir Henry’s descent towards Baskerville Hall:
Unlock with LitCharts A+We had left the fertile country behind and beneath us. We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands. The road in front of us grew bleaker and wilder over huge russet and olive slopes, sprinkled with giant boulders.
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Chapter 14
Explanation and Analysis—The Fiery Hound:
In Chapter 14, Watson uses fiery imagery when he and Holmes finally lay eyes on the infamous hound of Baskerville:
Unlock with LitCharts A+A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish, be conceived than that dark form.
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