Question

Which statement correctly identifies the impact of imagery on the mood of a literary work? A Imagery helps establish the mood by making comparisons between two unlike objects or characters in a work. B Imagery helps establish the mood by providing the reader with visual pictures of the work's emotional atmosphere. C Imagery helps establish the mood by using and repeating words that begin with the same consonant sounds. D Imagery helps establish the mood by creating incongruities between what characters say and what they actually mean.

Answer 1

Option B

Step-by-step explanation:

To answer this question we need to understand what imagery is and what influence it has on the text.

Once Paul Shapiro said "The mood is the aura created by many sentences. It exists nowhere on the page. It exists everywhere around the page.” This phrase precisely describes what impact on the mood the imagery has on literary work.

Mood, or aura of the text, is the feeling the reader gets while reading a piece of literature. The mood, created by imagery, is an emotional response of the audience's understanding of what the author is saying.

For example, you can feel happy and relaxed if a sunny beautiful garden is described, or sad and melancholic if you are reading about rain and a grey gloomy day. The mood is changing all the time throughout a story, it depends on the actions of the characters, setting, plot, etc. The mood is very important for a piece of literature as it activates the emotional response and connection of the reader to its material.

So, Option B is the right answer because it correctly identifies the impact of imagery on the mood of the literary work - Imagery helps establish the mood by providing the reader with visual pictures of the work's emotional atmosphere.