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Monica is reading a passage from her favorite story. She enjoys the descriptive language because it includes so many sensory details. Which literary device is the author using?

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The author is using a literary device called "imagery".
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The answer is: imagery

Imagery is the use of figurative language to portray things, actions and thoughts in a way that it appeals to the readers' physical senses. In that matter, the sensory details described arouse emotion or illustrate abstractions. It uses words related to the five senses: visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory and olfactory.

However, one image can represent more than one thing. For instance, a rose may have visual imagery as well as symbolize the color in a woman's cheeks, or represent some intensity of perfection.

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