• Imagery: A literary strategy known as imagery is employed in poetry, novels, and other works of writing to evoke a mental image or idea in the reader through vivid description. The poem establishes a strong feeling of place with descriptions of sight, smell, and sound. A peaceful, well-kept neighborhood is depicted, for instance, by the phrases “sanitary trees,” “dry August sunlight,” and “rational whine of a power mower”.
• Alliteration: A literary method known as alliteration occurs when two or more words have the same initial consonant sound. Consonant sounds, like as the “s” in “streets,” “sanities,” and “surface,” are used frequently to create emphasis and tension.
• Simile: A simile is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated items and highlights their similarities by utilizing the terms “like” or “as.” “The houses in pedantic rows, the planted sanitary trees, assert levelness of surface like a rebuke to the dent in our car door.” In this comparison, the neat houses and trees are compared to a rebuke, implying that they are passing judgment on or criticizing the speaker and their wrecked vehicle.
• Personification: Personification is a poetic method that imbues inanimate objects, such as plants or animals, with human characteristics, creating vivid imagery and detailed poetry. “The houses, capsized, will slide obliquely into the clay seas.” By giving the houses mobility and implying that their foundations are not as stable as they appear, this personifies the houses.

The City Planners Summary