Imagery is visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. There are also visual symbolism, “Film’s religious imagery” 2. Visual images collectively. Imagery is associated with mental pictures, but is actually more complex than pictures. Even if we read the word “Shout,” and though that is a verbal act, we still imagine someone yelling and can predict what it would someone sound like.

Margaret Atwood makes good metaphors when she mentions describing snowman at the beginning of this book. Snowman was described to be ” a creature of darkness, of the dusk”(Atwood 6). This quote left it in our hands to predict the appearance of snowman, and image what he looked like. This quote then made me ask myself if the direct experience of living within an apocalypse made him to become this creature or if it was a past trait he had living within the shadows. Also a few small children gave us a description of snowman to unravel the mystery of his facial hair.  This brings very powerful imagery. When confronted by the children that are literally lacking common knowledge they predict that “Snowman was once a bird but had forgotten how to fly and the rest of the feathers fell out…” (Atwood 8)

“Imagery | Definition of Imagery in US English by Oxford Dictionaries.” Oxford Dictionaries | English, Oxford Dictionaries, en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/imagery.

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