controlling image

noun

1. a literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol.

Example Sentences

For so much of his life, Trump has been a narrator, controlling image, message and, often, his preferred version of the truth.

From Seattle Times

Google’s mathemagical ways of controlling image noise in the dark are truly unique and ahead of the entire mobile industry, Apple included.

From The Verge

“It didn’t jibe with the overly controlling image Fred Murray portrayed in public.”

From The New Yorker