ABSTRACT
Imagery is a form of communication. In a novel it is frequently a communication (or communing) with one's self, as in thought, reverie, or the mental consideration of one's state of mind or physical condition. The verbal description of mental imagery is perhaps the most common aspect of the novel but, to use an apt cliche, it often "loses something in the translation." Pictorial imagery, on the other hand, is an international language-it can communicate at a maximum level with everyone.
