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Definition
Types & Examples

Definition
Imagery refers to language that stimulates the
reader’s senses.
By evoking those senses through touch, taste,
sound, smell, and sight, the writer imparts a
deeper understanding of the human
experience, connecting with the reader
through a shared sensory experience.

Imagery
definition:
For the most part, imagery in literature
language that
focuses on concrete senses—things you can
physically experience.
stimulates the
reader’s senses.
Types
Visual imagery is description that stimulates the eyes.
Specifically, your mind’s eye: when you can visualize the colors,
shapes, forms, and aesthetics of something that’s described to
1 you, the writer is employing visual imagery.
When you can visualize the colors, shapes, forms, and

aesthetics of something that’s described to you, the writer is
employing visual imagery.
Visual
Imagery
Types
In each example, the visual imagery has been bolded
“A field of cotton—
as if the moon
had flowered.”
—Matsuo Bashō, from Basho: The Complete Haiku, translated by Jane

Reichhold.
Visual
Imagery
Examples
Types
In each example, the visual imagery has been bolded
“While talking to my mother I neaten things. Spines of books by

the phone.
Paperclips
in a china dish. Fragments of eraser that dot the desk. She
speaks
Visual longingly
I begin tilting all the paperclips in the other

Imagery
of death.
direction.”
Examples —Anne Carson, from “Lines” in Decreation.
Types
Auditory imagery is description that stimulates the ears. When you
can hear the sounds of nature, machinery, or someone’s voice, it’s
because of the description employed in the author’s auditory
2 imagery.
When you can hear sounds like nature, machinery, or someone’s

voice, it’s because of the description employed in the author’s
auditory imagery.
Auditory
Imagery

Types
In each example, the auditory imagery has been bolded.
“Few believe we’re in the middle of the end
because ruin can happen as slowly as plaque
blocking arteries, and only later feels as true
both of us
as your hand resting on my hip,
quiet as roses waiting for the bees to arrive.”

Auditory —Julie Danho, excerpt from “I Want to Eat Bugs With You Underground” in
Bennington Review.
Imagery
Examples
Types
“Our ears arestoppered

in the bee-hum. And Charlie,
laughing wonderfully,
beard stained purple
by the word juice,
Auditory goes to get a bigger pot.”
Imagery —Julie Danho, excerpt from “I Want to Eat Bugs With You Underground” in
Bennington Review.
Examples
Types
Auditory imagery is description that stimulates the ears. When you
can hear the sounds of nature, machinery, or someone’s voice, it’s
because of the description employed in the author’s auditory
3 imagery.
Sensations like itching, stickiness, and the warmth of sunlight all

count as tactile imagery, which appeals to the way your skin
might feel in that moment.
Tactile Tactile experiences only refer to external sensations, primarily on
Imagery the skin. When a writer describes internal sensations, they’re using
organic imagery, which we’ll define later on.
Types
“And now (how shall I describe it?), now all was still. Still, as when
some pain ceases.A peculiarly perceptible, prickling

stillness, as if a wound were healing.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke, excerpt from Journal of My Other Self.
Tactile
Imagery
Examples

Types
“Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems Real?
shark tooth stuck

If by real you mean as real as a
in your heel, the wetness of a finished lollipop stick,

the surprise of a thumbtack in your purse—
then Yes, every last page is true, every nuance,
Tactile bit, and bite.”
Imagery —Aimee Nezhukumatathil, excerpt from “Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems
Real?” in Poetry Foundation.
Examples

Types
Olfactory imagery is description that stimulates the nose. By
describing the peculiarities of a scent—its richness, pungence,
weight, distinctness, or physical effect—the author transports the
4
reader through the use of olfactory imagery.
By describing the peculiarities of a scent—its richness,

pungence, weight, distinctness, or physical effect—the author
transports the reader through the use of olfactory imagery.
Olfactory
Imagery

Types
“The flower shop was here and it was my father’s domain, but it
was also marvelously other, this placeheavy with the drowsy

scent of velvet-petaled roses and Provencal freesias in the
middle of winter, the damp-earth spring fragrance of just-
watered azaleas and cyclamen all mixed up with the

Olfactory headachey smell of bitter chocolate.”
Imagery —Patricia Hampl, excerpt from The Florist’s Daughter.
Examples

Types
“Why is it that the poets tell
So little of the sense of smell?
These are the odors I love well:
The smell of coffee freshly ground;

Or rich plum pudding, holly crowned;
Olfactory Or onions fried and deeply browned.”
Imagery —Christopher Morley, excerpt from “Smells”.
Examples

Types
Gustatory imagery is description that stimulates the tongue. If
you’ve ever done a wine or coffee tasting, you know exactly how
complex a flavor can be. Gustatory imagery captures a flavor’s
5 richness, acidity, earthiness, sweetness, bitterness, harshness, etc.
Gustatory imagery captures a flavor’s richness, acidity,

earthiness, sweetness, bitterness, harshness, etc.
Gustatory
Imagery

Types
“The hour was approaching at which the continental breakfast
begins, or rather ceases, to tell, and the ladies bought some hot
It
chestnut paste out of a little shop, because it looked so typical.
tasted partly of the paper in which it was wrapped, partly of

hair oil, partly of the great unknown.”
Gustatory —E.M. Forster, excerpt from A Room With a View.
Imagery

Types
“I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
Gustatory
you were probably
saving
Imagery for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious

so sweet
and so cold.”
—William Carlos Williams, “This Is Just To Say”.

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AGERY

Types & Examples

By evoking those senses through touch, taste,

sound, smell, and sight, the writer imparts a

deeper understanding of the human

experience, connecting with the reader

through a shared sensory experience.

shapes, forms, and aesthetics of something that’s described to

1 you, the writer is employing visual imagery.

When you can visualize the colors, shapes, forms, and

—Matsuo Bashō, from Basho: The Complete Haiku, translated by Jane

“While talking to my mother I neaten things. Spines of books by

I begin tilting all the paperclips in the other

can hear the sounds of nature, machinery, or someone’s voice, it’s

because of the description employed in the author’s auditory

When you can hear sounds like nature, machinery, or someone’s

“Few believe we’re in the middle of the end

because ruin can happen as slowly as plaque

blocking arteries, and only later feels as true

quiet as roses waiting for the bees to arrive.”

“Our ears arestoppered

by the word juice,

Auditory goes to get a bigger pot.”

can hear the sounds of nature, machinery, or someone’s voice, it’s

because of the description employed in the author’s auditory

Sensations like itching, stickiness, and the warmth of sunlight all

organic imagery, which we’ll define later on.

some pain ceases.A peculiarly perceptible, prickling

“Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems Real?

shark tooth stuck

in your heel, the wetness of a finished lollipop stick,

Tactile bit, and bite.”

describing the peculiarities of a scent—its richness, pungence,

weight, distinctness, or physical effect—the author transports the

By describing the peculiarities of a scent—its richness,

was also marvelously other, this placeheavy with the drowsy

watered azaleas and cyclamen all mixed up with the

Imagery —Patricia Hampl, excerpt from The Florist’s Daughter.

“Why is it that the poets tell

So little of the sense of smell?

These are the odors I love well:

The smell of coffee freshly ground;

Imagery —Christopher Morley, excerpt from “Smells”.

complex a flavor can be. Gustatory imagery captures a flavor’s

5 richness, acidity, earthiness, sweetness, bitterness, harshness, etc.

Gustatory imagery captures a flavor’s richness, acidity,

“The hour was approaching at which the continental breakfast

tasted partly of the paper in which it was wrapped, partly of

Imagery for breakfast

they were delicious

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