Imagery:
Imagery is the collective use of images. The making of "pictures in words," the pictorial quality of a literary work achieved through a collection of Images. In a broader sense, imagery is often used as synonymous with figure of speech or figurative language (Simile, Metaphor, or Symbol). Imagery appeals to the senses of taste, smell, hearing, and touch, and to internal feelings, as well as to the sense of sight. It evokes a complex of emotional suggestions and communicates Mood, Tone, and meaning. It can be both figurative and literal, as these lines from Elinor Wylie's "Puritan Sonnet" demonstrate:
I love those skies, thin blue or snowy gray,
Those fields sparse-planted, rendering meager sheaves;
That spring, briefer than apple-blossom's breath,
Summer, so much too beautiful to stay,
Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves,
And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death.