Animal Imagery In Literature. Darling don t you monkey with me monkey. Literature animals are imagined and referenced in all aspects of literature in religious texts fairy tales and poems for example.
Imagery needs the aid of figures of speech like simile metaphor personification and onomatopoeia in order to appeal to the bodily senses. But imagery in the duchess of malfi is unique 92. The eyes of jaguar are sharp and penetrating he is deaf of ear because of bang of blood in the brain.
Imagery is one of the strongest devices in literature wherein the author uses words and phrases to create mental images for the reader.
A progression from verbal to visual imagery may be found in webster s use of animal motifs. As lombard is getting ready for dinner he moved like a panther smoothly and. Imagery needs the aid of figures of speech like simile metaphor personification and onomatopoeia in order to appeal to the bodily senses. The imagery to describe human behavior and emotion is of course not limited to webster.