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Visual And Tactile Imagery In Last Day On Mars
This passage in Last Day on Mars has very powerful imagery. This is describing the moment Mars is swallowed by the expanding Sun from the perspective of one of Mars’ inhabitants. The imagery in this paragraph is specifically visual and tactile imagery. It is visual imagery because of the descriptions of Mars exploding, which make readers imagine that scene vividly. It is tactile imagery because of the description of feeling warm, which has to do with touch. This imagery evokes emotions like fear and terror, as the Sun destroying planets is a very real and terrifying possibility for humanity. The words he uses, such as boil and buckled, are words with a negative connotation for us, as they usually have to do with pain and destruction. These
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