The Narrator's description of Mrs. Coulter's hiding place
The narrator describes it as, '... rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave, half-hidden by the crag above and the stiff heavy leaves that clustered below. The woods were full of sound: the stream between the rocks, the wind among the needles of the pine branches, the chitter of insects and the cries of small arboreal mammals, as well as the birdsong; and from time to time a stronger gust of wind would make one of the branches of a cedar or a fir move against another and groan like a cello.' Imagery has been achieved in the description by the use of the simile '... groan like a cello' and the use of adjectives such as heavy and strong to describe various objects.
Description of Mrs. Coulter's daemon
The description is as follows, 'But the form that was crouching inside the entrance, his black eyes watching this way and that, his sharp ears pricked, was neither bird nor bat. The sunlight lay heavy and rich on his lustrous golden fur, and his monkey hands turned a pine cone this way and that, snapping off the scales with sharp fingers and scratching out the sweet nuts.' The narrator builds imagery in the paragraph by use of adjectives such as black to describe the daemon's eyes and sharp to describe his ears. The imagery creates a mental picture in the minds of the readers of the probable appearance of the daemon.
Will's description of a herd of strange beasts
When Will cut an opening to another world, he saw strange beasts that he described as, '... a herd of placid beasts was grazing-animals such as he'd never seen before creatures the size of bison, with wide horn and shaggy blue fir and a crest of stiff hair along their backs.' The description contains imagery because Will has employed the use of adjectives such as wide, shagy and blue to describe the beasts. Furthermore, he has compared the size of the beasts to that of bison. These qualities build a mental image of the strange animals in the readers minds.
Description of the path that Iorek and Will took to find Lyra
The narrator describes the path they took as, 'The sun was warm, but the pines and the rhododendrons kept the worst of the heat off their shoulders, and the air was fresh and clear. The ground was rocky, but the rocks were thick with moss and pine needles and the slopes they climbed were not precipitous.' Imagery has been achieved in this narration by the use of adjectives to bring out the various qualities of the path. The adjectives used are fresh and clear to describe the water and thick to describe the rocks.
