Analyzing the Imagery

Author's Note: I wrote this piece to show what I think about imagery and what it means to the tone and story. 

Imagery is a extraordinarily essential thing for a story to be superior. Making a story great requires you to create a picture in someone’s head. To do this, the author uses imagery. Imagery is figurative language used to make a picture in your head. You almost always need this in every story you write. It brings the story together and helps you picture the story in your mind. I think it is one of the most important thing in a story.

One type of imagery are personifications. These are one of the most used types of  figurative language. For a personification you need to make an inanimate object do something akin to a human. Take this sentence for example,  “The tree whistles in the wind outside my window.” A tree can’t actually whistle so that’s a personification. This effects the tone in masses.  It makes the tone mysterious and bloodcurdling. It makes your thoughts change about the object and changes your emotions.

Another type of imagery are similes. Similes are used to compare one thing to another while using like or as in the sentence. An example of this would be, “The branches clattered together like skeleton bones. “ This sentence compares the branches clattering together to skeleton bones. The sentence uses like and it compares them together. The tone, once again,  is a forbidding and nervous tone. It makes you feel creeped out and has a sense of suspense.

Figurative language means so much in a book. If I were reading a book and they said, “The man was a green as the leprechaun on St. Patrick’s Day.” It makes you think of the person as super green. It effects the characters in the story by making you think about what they look like and what their personality is. When people use figurative language when they are talking about the setting the same thing happens. If the sentence said, “The sky was bluer than a robin’s egg.” It makes you picture the sky being as the egg. That is what the author is trying to do.

Figurative language is definitely one of the most needed things in a story. It brings the characters and settings alive in your head. If you have hopes of writing a book you better have figurative language to help. It is a fun and creative way to make the book and it’s much needed.