Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Imagery--words that create a picture. Edgar Allan Poe was a master of imagery. In "The Fall of the House of Usher," for example, such pictures of a "black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled luster by the dwelling," create images in the mind of trepidation and gloom. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.