In the present work I intend to analyze the presence of imagery as a union between images, sounds and perceptions present in the reading of the works of Virginia Woolf, produced between 1911 and 1941. Realizing the changes that the end of the Victorian period (1837 - 1901) and the entrance in the Edwardian (1901-1910) and Georgian (1910 - 1936) period, the work seeks to demonstrate how the metaphors used by Virginia Woolf communicate about how fiction and fictionality were constituted in the first forty years of the 20th century. For this, I mobilize Hans Blumenberg s theory of metaphorology and, from it, I develop the notion of imagery, as a correlation between symbol, rhythm and metaphor, in a post-aesthetic process in the construction of mimesis in Luiz Costa Lima. It is through this key that I analyze the works of Virginia Woolf, locating the metaphors she uses in Jacobs Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando: a biography (1928), The Waves (1931) and The Years (1937), in addition to his literary essays published in literary magazines. My goal is to demonstrate how Woolfian writings are concerned with metaphorical use as a form of narrative and sensory expression, opening up a space for action for the reader. The notion of imagery would be a way to think about how these forms are constituted and propose an interpretative path for works that do not simplify or make works analogous to the biographical.