Question

“Payah kun,” said the Eldest Magician, meaning, “That is quite right”; and he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth that All-the-Elephant-there-was had thrown up, and they became the great Himalayan Mountains, and you can look them out on the map. . . .



Then the Moon rose big and full over the water, and the Eldest Magician said to the hunchbacked old man who sits in the Moon spinning a fishing-line with which he hopes one day to catch the world, “Ho! Fisher of the Moon, are you playing with the Sea?”



–“The Crab That Played with the Sea,”

Rudyard Kipling

Which phrases from the passage are examples of imagery? Check all that apply.

“‘Payah kun,’ said the Eldest Magician, meaning, ‘That is quite right’”
“he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth”
“the Moon rose big and full over the water”
“he hopes one day to catch the world”
“Ho! Fisher of the Moon”

Answer 1

- “he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth”
- “the Moon rose big and full over the water”

Both lines use descriptive, sensory language that creates clear mental images. The others are dialogue or figurative ideas rather than sensory imagery.