Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2011. Print.
The five main elements of my novel are:
1. Mood
2. Diction
3. Imagery
4. Suspense
5. Metaphor
Now I will sort them by importance to my reading engagement. This is difficult because in my opinion all of these elements work together to create a truly engaging read.
1. Imagery
2. Suspense
3. Diction
4. Mood
5. Metaphor
Imagery
This element is used quite often in my book. In my previous post, I had a quote where I think Imagery was used best to describe a hollow which is a flesh-eating soulless creature. I think Imagery is the most important because it projects an vivid impression of what is being described. It helps the reader to really imagine themselves in the scene with the characters.
"A vast, lunar bog stretched away into the mist from either side of the path, just brown grass and tea-colored water as fat as I could see, featureless but for the occasional mount of piled-up stones. It ended abruptly at a forest of skeletal trees, branches spindling up like the tips of wet paintbrushes, and for a while the path became so lost beneath fallen trunks and carpets of ivy that navigating it was a matter of faith." (Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 78)
Even if I didn't want to imagine this bog, I couldn't help it after reading this excerpt. This is one of the less gag-inducing parts that I could have chosen. But it's true, sometimes you are happy to imagine a place of beauty and peace. But you might be forced to imagine a dreary bog, or a spine tingling creature. That's the best part about imagery, it's like real life because you can't choose what you want to see or however long that image lasts in your mind.
wow! after reading your post on imagery, I never thought imagery was important before until I read this. I like how your example on when Imagery is used to describe something like the hollow which a flesh-eating soulless creature, I could picture that part in my head. Sounds like an interesting book Bronwyn!
ReplyDeleteThe way you explain the imagery in this book is amazing. I agree with the "it's like real life" because it is true, you cannot control what you see and how long it stays. Another great post!
ReplyDeleteThat book sounds interesting. The way you describe it makes it sound amazing. Imagery does make a huge difference. If you can actually picture the characters and what is going on in the novel it makes you feel as though you are in the book experiencing everything with the characters.
ReplyDeleteI am really interested in reading this book now! I think that imagery would be the post important element in this novel. I could tell just by reading the quote because everything is described in much detail.
ReplyDeleteThat is what is going to be so great about the blog posts, and the comments - we get to find books that others have read that sound like good picks to us. I am starting my list with this one too.
DeleteBronwyn you have one more post to complete and then you are caught up!
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