Imagery
The creation of images using words. Poets usually achieve this by invoking comparisons by means of metaphor or simile or other figures of speech. In his famous line from sonnet 18 Shakespeare creates an image by comparing his love to a 'summer's day'.
[n] the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"
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