The description of the cave and its sorroundings
The description of the cave is vivid in nature a situation which enhances imagery. The reader is able to perceive in conceptual terms the coldness and loneliness that engulfed it, as well as the darkness. The reader is also able to imagine the water as it drips from the leaves on the trees outside of the mouth of the cave, the soaked ground below, and the restlessness of the inhabitant of the cave: "It was dark, and the place was cold, but he had lit a small fire of wood, which smoked sullenly but gave a little warmth. It had been raining all day, and from the branches near the mouth of the cave water still dripped, and a steady trickle overflowed the lip of the well, soaking the ground below. Several times, restless, he had left the cave, and now he walked out below the cliff to the grove where his horse stood tethered."
The decription of the aftermath of the rain and the effect of the mist outside the narrator's cave
The narrator describes vividly the happenings outside of the cave after the rain had ceased, on the approach of dusk. Through this vivid and overtly explicit description, the reader is able to imagine the events as they happen, the rising mist creeping knee-high, the horse floating like a swan, the trees standing ghostly among other events. The descriptions are given as: "With the coming of dusk the rain had stopped, but a mist had risen, creeping knee-high through the trees so that they stood like ghosts, and the grazing horse floated like a swan. It was a grey, and more than ever ghostly because it grazed so quietly; he had torn up a scarf and wound fragments of cloth round the bit so that no jingle should betray him. The bit was gilded, and the torn strips were of silk, for he was a king's son. If they had caught him, they would have killed him."
The imagery of the sun and the following effect
The narrator explains vividly the occasion of his Uncle's arrival. He describes the way that the sun slanted through the windows and the effect that followed, that is, the creation of oblong pools of bright gold on the cracked mosaics of the floor. The reader is able to imagine and visualize the 'bees droned in the herbs outside'. Additionally, the talking women outside can be imagined a situation which enhances imagery in the novel making the scene interesting: "The sun slanted through the windows, making oblong pools of bright gold on the cracked mosaics of the floor; bees droned in the herbs outside, and even the click and rattle of the loom sounded sleepy. The women were talking among themselves over their spindles, but softly, heads together, and Moravik, my nurse, was frankly asleep on her stool in one of the pools of sunlight."
The imagery of the shining full moon
The narrator vividly describes one of his night escapes in which the moon was full and shining. The description of the clarity of the moon, as well as her pouring light down onto the narrator's upturned face, enhances the creation of a mental image in the reader's mind, a situation which enhances and makes the story interesting: "The moon was there that night. Full and shining, she stood clear in the centre of the shaft, her light pouring down on my upturned face so white and pure that it seemed I drank it in like water."
