Read the following excerpt from mercutio’s monologue about queen mab, bringer of dreams from romeo and juliet: she comes in shape no bigger than an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman, drawn with a team of little atomies athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep; what is the effect of shakespeare’s use of imagery?

Shakespeare uses very descriptive imagery When Mercrutio describes Queen Mab. This is useful, because Queen Mab brings dreams, and to picture a tiny queen with a small group of little bodies following her across sleeping men's noses gives a much more whimsical and dreamlike image to the audience than simply saying "She brings dreams".