Imagery

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Imagery Figurative Language

• An image is a word or sequence of words that
  refers to any sensory experience

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Imagery

• What are your five senses? Sight, Hearing,
  Touch, Taste, and Smell
• An image conveys a sense perception , i.e., a
  visual picture, a sound, a feeling of touch, a
  taste, or an odor

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Figures of Speech

• Figurative language uses figures of speech to
  convey unique images and create some sort of
  special effect or impression.
• A figure of speech is an intentional difference
  from the ordinary usage of language.

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Poetry works by comparison

• Poets often create images or enhance meaning by
  comparing one thing to another for special
  effect.

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Simile

• A simile is a type of metaphor, a figure in which
  an clear comparison is made using the comparative
  words like, as, resembles, than. Similes are easy
  to spot.
• (X is like Y X is compared to Y in order to
  illustrate X more fancifully, poetically, or
  effectively. But Y is not a literal
  representation of X, not actual.)
• The teams center looked like a skyscraper.
• My love is like a red, red rose.
• We were as quiet as frightened mice.

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More similes

• Dumb as a door knob
• As good as gold
• Like a bat out of hell
• Tough as nails
• Working like a dog
• Larger than life

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Metaphor

• A metaphor also compares, but a metaphor is a bit
  more sophisticated than a simile.
• For one thing, in a metaphor, the words
• like or as are missing. So readers have to
  recognize the comparison on their own without
  those easy words which help us to spot a simile
  so quickly.

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Metaphor (continued)

• In a metaphor, a poet writes that X is Y.
  Readers understand that we are not to take the
  comparison literally, but that the metaphor helps
  us to see X in a new way.
• My brother is a prince.
• Paul Brown Stadium was a slaughterhouse.

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More metaphors

• Jimmy was a lion in the fight.
• Her eyes are dark emeralds.
• Her teeth are pearls.
• There are plenty of fish in the sea

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Personification

• Another kind of comparison is called
  personification. Here, animals, elements of
  nature, and objects are given human qualities.
• -The full moon smiled down at me

• An angry wind slashed its way across the island.

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More on Figurative Language

• The three main uses of figurative language needed
  to read poetry are the previous
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• But there are many other poetic devices used.
  The more you recognize, the richer your reading
  experience can be.

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Hyperbole

• Hyperbole is intentional exaggeration or
  overstating, often for dramatic or humorous
  effect

Your predicament saddens me so much that I feel
a actual flood of tears coming on
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Symbol

• A symbol is a person, place, an object, or an
  action that stands for something beyond itself.
• A dove is a symbol for peace.
• In slave code songs, a drinking gourd is a symbol
  for the big dipper.

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The End