Answer:
Visual imagery appeals to the reader’s sense of sight. Descriptions of things like colors, shapes, textures, and movement can all work with visual imagery.
Step-by-step explanation:
Examples of visual imagery:
- “At one point, she holds her hands out, forming a cup. It’s like she’s holding her heart there. It’s bleeding down her arms.”
- “He sips on his longneck beer from start to finish and touches the whiskers that seem glued in patches on his man-boyish face.”
- “She looks at me, and she has sunshine-colored hair in a ponytail and clear eyes, like water. The mildest blue I have ever seen.”
These examples also use subtext. In the first one, we have a description of how the woman is sitting–her physical position–but we get so much more than that.
You can see her pain, but instead of just saying “she’s hurting,” Zusak makes the connection through how she’s holding herself.