Imagery

Rhetorical figures of sppch.
 * Critics today use imagery in a second sense. They use it to mean figurative language, especially metaphor. Figurative language is the conscious departure from normal or conventional ways of saying things. This could mean merely a rearrangement of the normal word order of a sentence.

Similies
 * But much more common and important to poetry is a second category of figurative language: tropes. Tropes extend the meaning of words beyond their literal meaning. The most common form of trop is metaphor. Metaphor has a general and a specific meaning. Generally, it means any analogy. An analogy is a simiality between things that are basically different.Specifically, metarphor means a particular kind of analogy and is contrasted with the simile.

Metaphors.
 * A metaphor also claims similarities between things that are essentially unlike, but it eliminates the comparative words (such as like) and thus equates the compared items. For example, "My heart was a tornado of passion" (not "My heart was like a tornado of passion").

Personification.
 * Analogies can be directly stated or implied.

Extended metaphor.
 * When the poet develps just one analogy throughout the whole peom, the analogy is called an extended metaphore.