Answer and explanation:
Imagery is a literary device that uses language to appeal to the five senses (sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing). Its goal is to involve readers and help them to visualize what is being described and feel a certain way. Imagery helps create the mood for story, which brings out an emotion response from readers.
Below, a description of two of my favorite places using imagery.
The first place I learned to love is in the countryside. It seems to always welcome me with a gentle, cool breeze that carries fallen leaves only a short distance, and then lets them drop to the ground again. There is this huge, leafy tree that stretched its branches toward the blue sky as if trying to embrace it, to bring it home the same way it does to me. The trunk is rough, cracked here and there but unhurt. Through the leaves, sunshine is filtered, still warm, cozy warm. It's as if the sun gets happier, lighter, its laughing touch wants to play with my skin. And this place... it smells like water. Water, that thing they teach us has no smell, it does... it smells fresh, liquid, alive as it runs bubly down the rocks in the creek's bed.
The second place I learned to love is at the shore. The gentleness is gone here. Even when calm, the sea is powerful. It moves decidedly, licking the sands for just a brief moment. Then it's back, as if it had never intended to leave, as if it has never had enough. It smells salty, it feels salty. I could probably watch the salt descend through the air and land on my sky if I tried. But I focus on the grainy touch below my feet, hot, moist, soft. Even the sunshine here is blinding, excruciatingly white.