Imagery+in+The+Devil+and+Tom+Walker

__Talha B__- **Imagery In Forest** - In the following text, Washington Irving describes the forest where Tom takes a shortcut. He conveys the dark, melancholy image of the swamp to the rader through imagery and metaphors. Overall the reader gains a mental image of the "treacherous" forest Tom stumbles upon and can imagine the potential danger that faces him. "The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks, some of them ninety feet high...a retreat for all the owls of the neighborhood. It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered with weeds and mosses, where the green surface often betrayed...into a gulf of black, smothering mud; there was also dark and stagnant pools. Where the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half-drowned, half-rotting, looking like alligators sleeping in the mire."

__ArjunP__- **Imagery Of Tom's Forest Experience** "He reposed himself for some time on the trunk of a fallen hemlock, listening to the boding cry of the tree toad, and delving with his walking staff into mound of black mold at his feet." - Washington Irving describes the surroundings of the forest that Tom was in, bringing up the cry a toad makes and he also describes the feeling of when Tom walks on the black molds (dead leaves and soil). That is what the reader really gets out reading this particular part of the passage.

AndrewG- Imagery of Tom and his Wife's Life and Home "there lived near this place a meager, miserly fellow, of the name of Tom Walker. He had a wife as miserly as himself...They lived in a forlorn-looking house that stood alone and had an air of starvation. A few straggling savin trees, emblems of sterility, grew near it; no smoke ever curled from its chimney; no traveler stopped at its door. A miserable horse, whose ribs were as articulate as the bars of a gridiron, stalked about a field."