Imagery

Imagery is language that creates a sensory impression within the reader’s mind.  It allows the reader to see, hear, feel, smell, or even taste what is happening in the story - all in the mind of course.  Imagery makes the reader feel like he is there, in the story, experiencing the same things that the character is experiencing.

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Imagery

1. Create imagery through descriptions and sensory (sight, hearing, feeling, tasting) language.

2. Create imagery with strong verbs!

Examples: run, hide, jump, think.

3. Create imagery with adjectives.

Examples: soft, orange, fluffy. 

Multiple Choice

What is the best definition of imagery? 

• Imagery is the author’s use of language that appeals to the five senses in order to help the reader imagine what is being described.
  
• An act of saying what will or might happen in the future.
•  A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.
• Exaggeration

Multiple Choice

This sentence appeals to which sense:

The familiar tang of his grandmother’s cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth.

• taste
• sound
• sight
• smell

Multiple Choice

This sentence appeals to which sense:

The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward.

• sound
• sight
• smell
• touch

Multiple Choice

This sentence appeals to which sense:

The sunset was the most gorgeous they’d ever seen; the clouds were edged with pink and gold.

• sight
• smell
• touch
• taste

Multiple Choice

This sentence appeals to which sense:

After eating the curry, his breath reeked of garlic.

• smell
• touch
• taste
• sound

Multiple Choice

This sentence appeals to which sense:
The dog's fur was as soft as a feather. 

• touch
• taste
• sound
• sight

Multiple Choice

This excerpt appeals to which sense:

Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue..

• sight
• smell
• touch
• taste

Multiple Choice

Which of the following lines from Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” contains imagery?

• The woods are lovely, dark and deep
•  But I have promises to keep
• And miles to go before I sleep
• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blank with the verb that fits best.

The T. Rex __________ across the swamp.

• stomp

• stomps

Multiple Choice

Identify the verb in the sentence:

The tiger lurks in the shadows.

• tiger

• lurks

• in

• shadows

Multiple Choice

Identify the action verb: The snow glistened in the sun.

• snow

• sun

• glistened

• in

Multiple Choice

Identify the action verb: One child slid down the snowy hill.

• one

• down

• slid

• snowy

Multiple Select

Select the adjectives: Snowy crystals fell softly on the dead leaves.

• snowy

• crystals

• fell

• softly

• dead

Multiple Select

Select the adjectives: The old stone cottage is now a pizza shop.

• old

• stone

• cottage

• pizza

• shop

Multiple Select

As the revered actor strode onto the stage, the atmosphere in the theater felt electric.

• revered

• atmosphere

• electric

Multiple Select

Bert felt confident that he could maintain control of the ball with little difficulty, and as he dribbles past the defender, he manages to shoot the ball into the goal.

• confident

• control

• little

Multiple Choice

The light danced on the surface of the lake as Ruth took in the magical scene before her.

• danced

• magical

• scene

Multiple Select

As we ambled along the moonlit path, we listened to the symphony of crickets in the woods around us.

• moonlit

• symphony

• woods