Which sentence contains the strongest example of imagery? it was a cold and windy night. the sky was immense and seemed to swallow me whole. stars shimmered in the sky like a sea of tiny candles. i felt very alone as i looked out at the night and shivered.

Stars shimmered in the sky like a sea of tiny candles.

This is the strongest example of imagery. A strong example of imagery is a description that is so detailed many readers will create the same mental image. The first doesn't work because the description is not specific enough. It doesn't say how cold or how windy. Four people may have different versions what windy and cold mean to them. The same with option B. It is simply saying that the sky is big. It doesn't say if it is night, day, sunny, cloudy...the images that would develop from this sentence have too many possibilities. This is also true of the last option. The third option is the best because it uses a simile to paint a very specific picture in the reader's mind.

Stars shimmered in the sky like a sea of tiny candles.