During her speech on vacationing on the Greek island of Hydra, Anne asks her audience to imagine a place where the sounds of the sea and the wind are not interrupted by honking horns and screeching tires; a place where the only traffic sounds are the soft whirr of bicycle tires on the pavement. Anne is using __________ to give her audience a sense of the place.

A. idioms
B. hyperbole
C. figures of speech
D. imagery


Answer: D

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