The dominant literary element in the Invisible Man , by Ralph Ellison, is imagery. The author did this to brighten his book with great visions. Also since the protagonists image is kept mostly hiden from the reader, the author wants to make every other part of the story vivid and colorful. All this makes for a very enjoyable read.
Ralph Ellison isn't constantly using imagery though. It's mainly at the beginning of a chapter. This sets the mood and the sciene for most of the chapter. Ellison also uses fantastic imagery to discribe a character, for some character Ellison uses whole pages to create an image of someone. Without imagery this book would be dull, and seem to drone on and on, but since this is not the case The Invisible Man in interesting, and exciting.
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