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imagery

 noun
     
Related topics: Literature, Film, Theatre
im‧ag‧e‧ry [uncountable]
AL the use of words or pictures to describe ideas or actions in poems, books, films etc
imagery of
the imagery of love
Their dreams commonly involved complex stories with visual imagery.
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