Imagery

Imagery: See, Hear, Taste, Smell and Touch

Imagery

                          We experience life through our senses

Visual imagery: Describes what we see: comic book images, paintings, or images directly experienced through the narrator’s eyes.

Auditory imagery: Describes what we hear, from music to noise to pure silence.

Olfactory imagery: Describes what we smell. 

Gustatory imagery: Describes what we taste.

Tactile imagery: Describes what we feel or touch. 

                                            

                              The Sixth Sense: Descriptive Imagery

Descriptive imagery launches the reader into the experience of a warm spring day, scorching hot summer, crisp fall, or harsh winter. 

It allows readers to directly sympathize with characters 

Imagery commonly helps build compelling poetry convincing narratives, vivid plays, well-designed film sets, and descriptive songs.

Descriptive Imagery: Life is expressed in Metaphors

Metaphor is often used as a type of imagery. Specifically, metaphor is the direct comparison of two distinct things. 

• He is a rotten apple who can spoil all good apples around  him.

                                                  

                                                Bad Apple Effect

• Her smiling face is the sun.

                                                         Imagery To Mental Imagery

                                              Mental Imagery: What one chooses to see

                                                                                    

    Change your mental imagery and the feelings will take care of themselves

Mental Imagery

Mental Imagery: Effective strategy of making something happen to you

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Senses To Mental Visualization