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You can refer to the descriptions in something such as a poem or song, and the pictures they create in your mind, as its ~. (FORMAL)
...the nature ~ of the ballad.
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You can refer to pictures and representations of things as ~, especially when they act as symbols. (FORMAL)
This is an ambitious and intriguing movie, full of striking ~.
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