What is the word for putting an image in someone's head by describing it?

Question

I'm not quite sure how to put this but I'm writing an essay on To Kill a Mockingbird and Tom Robinson, the defendant in the court trial within the novel, describes what actually happened during the time that Mayella, the plaintiff, is accusing him of rape.

I need a word for how Tom Robinson "imagerizes" the incident.

One word preferred.

Answer 1

"Vivid" means clear and detailed, easily distinguished. As an adverb, "Vividly" means to do something in a manner as to produce such a clear and detailed picture in someone's head.

So the term you want is "vividly describes".

Answer 2

Evokes

Evokes means to cause a response in somebody. One could evoke a feeling, a memory, a mood or a response (of any kind) from another.

Examples:

• The scent of roses evokes the memory of my grandmother
• The smell of home cooking evoked memories of home in me
• As he smelled smoke, he felt afraid, remembering the childhood disaster (that it evoked)
• Tom told an evocative story that made the jury feel that they had followed along with him on his blackberry-picking journey on that fateful afternoon

It means that the person feels like they are ‘back in the situation’ as if it is happening now.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/evoke