Read the excerpt and answer the question.

At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village whose shingle roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape.

In this excerpt from “Rip Van Winkle,” Washington Irving uses _____ to describe the village.

irony
symbolism
imagery
allegory