Define Imagery And Tone. Remember how we talked about how imagery can set a tone or mood. As a literary device imagery consists of descriptive language that can function as a way for the reader to better imagine the world of the piece of literature and also add symbolism to the work.
Auditory imagery may include. Let us analyze how famous poets and writers use imagery in literature. The old man took the handful of dust and sifted it through his fingers.
Authors must use words to convey emotions and feelings and the choice of these words constitutes the tone the author has toward the work s main subject.
Imagery draws on the five senses namely the details of taste touch sight smell and sound imagery can also pertain to details about movement or a sense of a body in motion. An author s tone may be serious playful mocking angry commanding apologetic and so forth. Short examples of imagery. Auditory imagery describes what we hear from music to noise to pure silence.