A&B Ch 18 skills 18.2, 18.4 and Little Penguin Handbook Part 6

An important rhetorical skill is imagery.  The Allyn Bacon guide says to use concrete words that evoke images and sensations. They say that sometimes even using complex language can be good, because it forces the reader to stop and think, and often leads to better understanding. The writer should use words that trigger memory.  The writer can also use "trope" or figurative language to help aid them in their writing. The Allyn Bacon Guide says, "figurative language abounds when literal words fail."  You can use figurative language to better describe feelings, emotions, and thing that other people haven't experience, but you have.  A writer should use trope to help explain images and sensory.  I plan on trying to use figurative language in my own personal narrative, to help describe the climax, because if I use it correctly I know it will help my readers get closer to actually understanding what it was like to be experiencing what I did. Also figurative language is what makes novels so much better than text books, so I wan't to use it to be a better writer.  ( The Penguin Handbook talks about punctuation, but I didn't reference it, because it didn't make sense with everything else.)