Imagery: Butcher’s main element throughout all his stories is magic. He uses very in depth imagery so that his readers are able to see the magic as he imagines it in his own mind. He shows how much power the magic has by how much imagery he uses to describe it. 

Coming back from an intense fight with a werewolf that seemed unkillable I walked up the stairs to my shabby apartment almost needing to flop down into my bed. I open the door and my roommate Ray is sitting in his rocker watching cartoons that flicker in and out on the old tv. 

“Tough night Rich?”

“Like bad beef jerky.” I grunted back through the pain in my back as I set my coat on the rack and my recently bloodied and cleaned dagger on the table. 

I headed for the fridge, desiring a crisp, cold diet pepsi. Achieving my dream at the moment the next one was the couch that had never seemed more cushioned in my life. As I sat down the stygian iron ring I had on my left middle finger lightly sparked from being almost as exasperated as me. Made specifically for fighting monsters, the ring had saved my life multiple times as it had for my father, grandfather, and generations before. With intricate engravings from over two thousand years ago the rumor was that Jesus himself blessed it with some of his power and I’d believe it as it still glows with a luminous, almost holy, white-gold light. 

Imagery: I described the silver ring as being made with a mythical metal and how the magic in it was from Jesus along with the detail of it giving a little spark to show how powerful it was at the time. Since the spark was little it didn’t have much of any power left in it. The description of the silver fire burning the werewolf is also magical imagery and that it was described more because it was powerful enough to kill the werewolf.