Imagery
Definition:
In literature, one of the strongest devices is imagery wherein the author uses words and phrases to create “mental images” for the reader. Imagery helps the reader to visualize more realistically the author’s writings. The usage of metaphors, allusions, descriptive words and similes amongst other literary forms in order to “tickle” and awaken the readers’ sensory perceptions is referred to as imagery. Imagery is not limited to only visual sensations, but also refers to igniting kinesthetic, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, thermal and auditory sensations as well.
Example:
The gushing brook stole its way down the lush green mountains, dotted with tiny flowers in a riot of colors and trees coming alive with gaily chirping birds.
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191 comments posted"then he mended the mossy wooden fence" is this imagery pls help
In "The Two Streams" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the repetition of sounds in the descriptions "sloping sides," "rushing river-tides" and "foam-flecked Oregon" are examples of which literary device used to provide imagery of nature?
Alliteration is what you call that literary device.
It helps me with so much especially my literary journal for my English class! :) <3
our imagination
"I´ll go out in the FROSTY DARK."
Would this be an image??
I'll go out into the frosty dark environment; the night sky black as the depths if the ocean and colder than a bucket of ice. that was terrible but something like that give it a little more.
if an image in ur mind pops up yea
What's it called when someone uses all types of imagery. My teacher said it was tableau d'avant but I'm in French 2 and well that doesn't sound right. I have no idea if I heard him right or wrong but help please.
words in pictures
Because it's implying that friendship is in the air, yet it's not, it means that free ship is all around.
'friendship is in the air'
I would say a metaphor. This is because friendship isnt literally in the air (for obvious reasons) and a metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Hope this helped :)
Friendship is compared to air to show that friendship is everywhere, i just like air we see everyday. In another aspect, since we cannot see air but we feel and know that it's there, here we can imply that the voice uses imagery (tactile) to show that friendship is just the same as that (DO NOT TRUST ME)
Metaphor
When daylight comes thought and the day is anew
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“With his ebony hands on each ivory key”
“Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool”
wonderful!
The images in my head are simple wonderful
It seems like it was only yesterday
This is Flashback
no
what would be an example of bastille imagery??
Is this imagery? "Staned with rotting brown magnolia petals.." Plzz need it for my essay
Yes it is mr imagery
Yes it is, because the quote describes the object in a way that creates a mental image of this object in the readers mind. Specifically it would be considered visual imagery because the type of "mental image" it creates in the readers head is a visual representation of what this object looks like (rather that what the smell of the object is or the texture or sound, etc.). The specific "stained" and "rotting brown" gives specific visual detail on the object.
Hoped this helped!
( English has been on of my best subjects my entire life, so I'm pretty certain my answer is accurate)
thank u so much
IF I were to do sominthing it would be imsgery
"Really?" I don't tell Sarah I lied yesterday. But I put the box of Frosted Flakes back in the cupboard and eat the Corn Pops instead. They're too hard and too sweet and too full of puffed air. I eat a whole bowlful and still feel totally empty inside.
I don't believe so....
Is John Winthrop's work "City upon a hill" imagery???
and bounded into the sun like an angel entering a brightly heaven
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More like a simile
Just read the description above. Simple.
Is this imagery?
"Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree."
It is imagery as you would be able to imagine how hope is perched like a cardinal. Also, there is a bit of personification as perching is something that a person would do
It seems more like anthropomorphism. Giving human or animal characteristics to hope which isn't alive.
Yes, I think it is
"And then-the watcher at his pulse took fright.
No one believed."
i like this
the thing about this is that it doesn't really describe what the scene is. It describes what he did, but it doesn't necessarily allow me to visualize it in my head. I am not an expert, but this seems to be some other device.
Rattled an entire magazine of ammunition.
We were all flat on the ground.
I see kids rattling magazines of ammo while laying flat on the ground
Or a gun and its rough power and forces pushing a magazine back and forth in a rattling motion while innocent civilians fall like a bag of potatoes on the floor. The eye inputs information and the brain translates it. That's how you see. Your imagery lacks information. It's an open interpretation
I believe if a pebble is thrown upwards
I can pierce the heavens
And see the angels at play
I think the last line can be..will it be ?
yes
it help a lot for my essay
Is this imagery or...? I can't figure it out and it's really frustrating me:
"For three years, since that girl left, his front has been impeccable. Now it peels from his skin, leaving the truth of him at the wheel of the car."
The book I'm reading has a lot of these and I never know what type of language they are. Thanks if you help :-)))
I would need more context to be sure, but I'd call this either metaphor or synecdoche. His peeling is a representation of an emotional tearing, that this girl gets at his facades and leaves him bare.
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