Literary Term - Chapter Three: Imagery

In Chapter Three, Billy Pilgrim describes his bedroom in his Gregorian house. Pilgrim goes into great detail by saying "the room had flowered wallpaper. There was a double bed with a clock-radio on a table beside. Also on the table were controls for an electronic blanket..." Vonnegut is using imagery to describe this scene. Imagery is the use of sensory language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience. Vonnegut also uses imagery to describe the blood from the two dying scouts as "a color of raspberry sherbet."