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    Imagery uses figurative language that appeals to our physical senses to represent ideas. It can create visual representations in our minds through words, but also invoke our other senses like hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Imagery requires the use of literary devices like similes, metaphors, personification, and onomatopoeia to appeal to our bodily senses. Short examples are provided that use imagery relating to different senses.

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    Imagery uses figurative language that appeals to our physical senses to represent ideas. It can create visual representations in our minds through words, but also invoke our other senses like hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Imagery requires the use of literary devices like similes, metaphors, personification, and onomatopoeia to appeal to our bodily senses. Short examples are provided that use imagery relating to different senses.

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    Imagery uses figurative language that appeals to our physical senses to represent ideas. It can create visual representations in our minds through words, but also invoke our other senses like hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Imagery requires the use of literary devices like similes, metaphors, personification, and onomatopoeia to appeal to our bodily senses. Short examples are provided that use imagery relating to different senses.

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    Definition of Imagery

    Imagery means to use figurative language to represent objects, actions,


    and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.

    Usually it is thought that imagery makes use of particular words that create
    visual representation of ideas in our minds. The word “imagery” is
    associated with mental pictures. However, this idea is but partially correct.
    Imagery, to be realistic, turns out to be more complex than just a picture.
    Read the following examples of imagery carefully:

     It was dark and dim in the forest.


    The words “dark” and “dim” are visual images.
     The children were screaming and shouting in the fields.
    “Screaming” and “shouting” appeal to our sense of hearing, or
    auditory sense.
     He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee.
    “Whiff” and “aroma” evoke our sense of smell, or olfactory sense.
     The girl ran her hands on a soft satin fabric.
    The idea of “soft” in this example appeals to our sense of touch, or
    tactile sense.
     The fresh and juicy orange is very cold and sweet.
    “Juicy” and “sweet” – when associated with oranges – have an effect
    on our sense of taste, or gustatory sense.

    Imagery needs the aid of figures of speech


    like simile, metaphor, personification, and onomatopoeia, in order to appeal
    to the bodily senses. Let us analyze how famous poets and writers use
    imagery in literature.

    Short Examples of Imagery


    1. The old man took the handful of dust, and sifted it through his fingers.
    2. The starry night sky looked so beautiful that it begged him to linger,
    but he reluctantly left for home.
    3. The fragrance of spring flowers made her joyful.
    4. The sound of a drum in the distance attracted him.
    5. The people traveled long distances to watch the sunset in the north.
    6. The stone fell with a splash in the lake.
    7. The sound of bat hitting the ball was pleasing to his ear.
    8. The chirping of birds heralded spring.
    9. There lay refuse heaps on their path that were so smelly that it
    maddened them.
    10. The silence in the room was unnerving.
    11. The blind man touched the tree to learn if its skin was smooth
    or rough.
    12. When he was on the way to work, he heard the muffled cry of a
    woman.
    13. The beacons of moonlight bathed the room in ethereal light.
    14. The wild gusts of cold wind pierced her body.
    15. The burger, aromatic with spices, made his mouth water in
    anticipation of the first bite.

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