Imagery

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Imagery

• Using Sensory Detail

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Imagery

• Imagery is an author's use of vivid and
  descriptive language to add depth to their work.
• It is used to describe something that can be
  seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled (the
  five senses)
• Detail and diction is key when using imagery!

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Sight

• The suns beams shimmered and danced on the
  oceans gentle waves.

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Smell

• The fragrant roses drifted through the room like
  elusive ghosts.

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Sound

• Although they could not see outside the cabin,
  they could hear the eerie tapping, tapping,
  tapping, of his knife upon their door.

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Taste

• The cheesecakes exquisite flavor traveled from
  his tongue to his spine.

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Touch

• The icy breeze gently brushed against the hair on
  her neck, and goose-bumps shortly followed.

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Examples

• He fumed and charged like an angry bull.

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Examples

• He fell down like an old tree falling down in a
  storm.

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Examples

• He felt like the flowers were waving him a hello.
  

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Examples

• The eerie silence was shattered by her scream.

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Examples

• He could hear his world crashing down when he
  heard the news about her.

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Examples

• The F-16 swooped down like an eagle after its
  prey.

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Examples

• The word spread like leaves in a storm.

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Examples

• The lake was left shivering by the touch of
  morning wind.

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Examples

• Her face blossomed when she caught a glance of
  him.

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Examples

• He could hear the footsteps of doom nearing.

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Examples

• The iron pot was a red as a tongue after eating
  a cherry flavored ring pop.

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Examples

• Though I was on the sheer face of a mountain, the
  feeling of swinging through the air was euphoric,
  almost like flying without wings.

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Examples

• Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun, blue as
  the sky, but soft as silk.

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Examples

• The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red,
  and yellow leaves that were beginning to make
  their decent to the ground.

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• The many men, so beautiful!
• And they all dead did lie
• And a thousand thousand slimy things
• Lived on and so did I.
• Within the shadow of the ship
• I watched their rich attire
• Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
• They coiled and swam and every track
• Was a flash of golden fire.
• -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the
  Ancient Mariner

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• It was a mine town, uranium most recently.
  Dust devils whirled sand off the mountains. Ever
  after the heaviest of rains, the water seeped
  back into the ground, between stones, and the
  earth was parched again.
• -Linda Hogan, Making Do

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• She looked into the distance, and the old
  terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again.
  Edna heard her fathers voice and her sister
  Margarets. She heard the barking of an old dog
  that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs
  of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked
  across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and
  the musky odor of pinks filled the air.
• -Kate Chopin, The Awakening