Types of Imagery - Examples from Lord of the Flies

The pig-run kept close to the jumble of rocks that lay down by the water on the other side and Ralph was content to follow Jack along it.

• visual imagery

• auditory imagery

• tactile imagery

• gustatory imagery

• olfactory imagery

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Ralph was aware of the heat for the first time that day.

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• tactile imagery

• gustatory imagery

• olfactory imagery

Ralph found that he had rock painfully gripped in both hands, found his body arched, the muscles of his neck stiff, his mouth strained open.

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The bushes crashed ahead of them. Boys flung themselves wildly from the pig track and scrabbled in the creepers, screaming.

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The chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or a hunt.

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The humiliating tears were running from the corner of each eye.

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The fair boy said this solemnly; but then the delight of a realized ambition overcame him. In the middle of the scar he stood on his head and grinned at the reversed fat boy.

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• tactile imagery

• gustatory imagery

• olfactory imagery

The littluns screamed and blundered about, fleeing from the edge of the forest, and one of them broke the ring of biguns in his terror.

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• gustatory imagery

• olfactory imagery

The hunters were looking uneasily at the sky, flinching from the stroke of the drops

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• olfactory imagery

The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain.

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• tactile imagery

• gustatory imagery

• olfactory imagery