Burroway states that, “the trick is that if you write in words that evoke the sense- if your language is full of things that can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted and touched- you create a world that your reader can enter” (16). Writing a great story with imagery requires concrete details which evokes the five senses. It also requires using significant details to create a judgement or a generalization. For example, Burroway writes this about details:
The notion of detail is important to the image because it moves away from the generalized and toward the particular. For example, creature is a generalized notion, hard to see except in the vaguest way. Animal is still vague; four-legged animal is a little more specific; domestic animal a little more; dog narrows the field; shepherd we can see; old Sammy asleep on the red rug, his haunches twitching in his dream brings the dog into sharp focus in our minds (Burroway 20).
Garvin uses imagery throughout her story to describe characters and