uses language in new and unusual ways.5 The imagery of a literary work consists of its figurative language, especially its comparative language, considered as a whole.6 Figures of comparison are among the most common types of figurative language. Similes create explicit comparisons using “like” or “as” (“as a deer longs for flowing streams”; “like sheep without a shepherd”). Metaphors create implicit comparisons (“I am the bread of life”; “beware of the yeast of the Pharisees”). An analogy is a more