Adam E. answered • 03/02/22
Experienced High School English Teacher, and ESL Teacher
Imagery is anything that puts something in your mind that you can taste, smell, hear, feel..., so although I have not read the book, I can see that there is likely some visual imagery description of the Mississippi perhaps.
Does the book talk about how it sounds or looks or feels?
One example fromp the book would be this quote - "It must have been all of fifteen minutes—fifteen minutes of dull homesick silence—before that long horse-face swung round upon me again—and then what a change!"
There is a great deal of visual imagery about the silence (what is heard) and also the look of the "horse-faced" man.
This is what to look for when you want to find imagery. Please, let me know if you need any further clarification!
Adam E.
Imagery, in the strictest sense, is just something that paints a picture for the senses, but you're right! It often links to an emotion. For Mark Twain, in particular, he uses the image of the Mississippi River stretching and turning to represent memory and a sense of longing for instance. That is using imagery as a symbol or a larger metaphor. But in itself, saying "the cool river winded through the green trees" is imagery. Hope that helps!03/03/22
Azariah R.
there's other things that it does tell me like for example. for the preparation part it says "to find a theme in a text, we consider what emotion or experience the author is exploring and what the author is saying about that emotion or experience." so I'm pretty sure the other part of the imagery is how the author feels in the story.03/02/22