I picture forests echoing with laughter and shadows taller than souls.
This is a form of imagery through personification. The forests are a inanimate object that are doing human things. The eerie language such as echoing, laughter, shadows, and souls give off a disturbing feeling included with vivid imagery.
A policeman picks up one of the smooth vinyl shards and rubs his thumb across the grooves. He glances at the album covers strewn across the bed and chooses one, flips it open, shakes his head. There’s this smile on his face
This segment contains descriptive language such as "Smooth vinyl shards" or "Strewn across the bed" these descriptive pieces of language makes it easy to imagine the scene. The "There's a smile on his face" is also another piece of descriptive language that gives the indication that the policeman knows who the bands on the vinyls are.
our rooms are in the basement separated by one thin wall. My bed is against the wall and at night I can hear him listening to his music. He listens on headphones but the volume’s so loud I hear everything
This paragraph shows imagery because the intensity that the. music is described in is very descriptive as shown in "The volume's so loud I hear everything". The detailed imagery also describes what the basement looks like.
I put on the Led Zeppelin and play “Stairway to Heaven” over and over. I lie on my bed and close my eyes and think if I keep listening to this one song at some point he’ll be listening too.
This represents the connection between her and her brother through music. Using these details I can imagine her on her bed with headphones listening to Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. Not to mention the part where it says "Think if I keep listening to this one song at some point he'll be listening too." that shows how much she cares about her brother
the window is shattered and he’s long gone. The floor is littered with broken records.
The detailed description creates imagery because of words such as shattered or broken. It is very easy to imagine a mess of glass shards and snapped records because of these vivid vocabulary.