Imagery

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Imagery 

• Show! Dont tell!

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Images

• Representations of anything we can see, hear,
  taste, touch, or smell.
• Ex.) A painter or sculptor can create an image
  of an apple so true to life that we can feel it
  in our hands, or even taste it!
• Ex.) A poet, using only words, can make us see
  and feel, taste and smell an apple by describing
  it as rosy, shiny, heavy, mushy, or
  sweet.

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Imagery

• The language that appeals to our five senses and
  creates images in our minds
• any series of words that create a picture, or
  sensory experience.
• Ex.) One asks, "What color are your living room
  walls?" The answer to this question is commonly
  retrieved by using imagery (by a person mentally
  "seeing" one's living room walls).

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How to create imagery in writing

• Such images can be created by using figures of
  speech such as
• similes
• metaphors
• personification
• assonance
• alliteration
• Imagery helps the reader imagine the sensations
  described as they are related through the
  language of the author.
• A simplistic view is that one can think of the
  imagery as painting a picture with words.

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Figurative Language

• similes - comparison of two unlike things,
  typically marked by use of "like", "as", "than",
  or "resembles".
• Curley was flopping like a fish on a line.
• metaphors - language that directly compares
  seemingly unrelated subjects (and does not use
  the above words).

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Figurative Language cont.

• personification - figure of speech that gives an
  inanimate object or abstract idea human traits
  and qualities, such as emotions, desires,
  sensations, physical gestures and speech.
• The flowers were suffering from the immense heat.
• The book was sitting on a table.
• assonance - repetition of vowel sounds in
  non-rhyming words.
• Do you like blue?
• Alliteration repetition of consonant sounds in
  non-rhyming words
• Sally sells sea shells by the seashore.

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Example of Imagery

• As the last seconds ticked down, the fans
  gripped their chilled drinks in anticipation.
  After the clock hit zero, the yellow and black
  suits stormed the green beaten field. They cried
  in excitement and exhaustion while they hugged
  teammates. From the sky red, blue, and white
  streamers danced down through the gentle smoke
  from the fireworks. The head coach was showered
  with freezing cold Gatorade that soaked every
  inch of his body and ran into his mouth and
  greeted him with sweetness. The look on his face
  was proud he was clearly in disbelief that this
  happened to him. Yes, he had won the Superbowl.

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Using imagery

• touch
• sight
• sight
• hear
• sight
• sight
• smell
• touch, sight
• sight, touch, taste

• gripped their chilled
• yellow and black
• green beaten
• cried in excitement
• hugged a teammate
• red, blue, and white streamers danced down
• gentle smoke
• showered with freezing cold Gatorade
• greeted him with sweetness

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Individual Practice - Imagery

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• Add words to expand each sentence to create a
  strong visual image.
• 1.) cat jumped
• 2.) child ran
• 3.) cow grazed
• 4.) team cheered
• 5.) Scottie barked