Types of Imagery

Which type of imagery is present in these song lyrics from the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?

"Picture yourself in a boat on a river

With tangerine trees and marmalade skies....

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green

Towering over your head"

• Kinesthetic

• Olfactory

• Visual

• Organic

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as the characters are overwhelmed by everything in the Chocolate Room, what type of imagery is used?

"...above the noise of the waterfall, you could hear the suck-suck-sucking sound of the pipes as they did their work."

• Gustatory

• Tactile

• Visual

• Auditory

Which type of imagery is present in these lines of Mary Oliver's poem Spring Azures?

"Sometimes the great bones of my life feel so heavy,

and all the tricks my body knows-

the opposable thumbs, the kneecaps,

and the mind clicking and clicking-

don't seem enough to carry me through this world"

• Kinesthetic

• Visual

• Olfactory

• Gustatory

As Harry and his friends go to Nearly Headless Nick's Deathday party in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which two types of imagery are used?

"The temperature dropped with every step they took. As Harry shivered and drew his robes tightly around him, he heard what sounded like a thousand fingernails scraping an enormous blackboard."

• olfactory

• tactile

• organic

• auditory

And a little bit more imagery from the Deathday party...?

"The smell was quite disgusting. Large, rotten fish were laid on handsome silver platters; cakes, burned charcoal-black, were heaped on salvers; there was a great maggoty haggis, a slab of cheese covered in furry green mold..."

• visual

• olfactory

• auditory

• tactile

From this excerpt from the Book Thief, which type of imagery is at work?

" Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth."

• Auditory

• Gustatory

• Organic

• Olfactory

In the Robert Frost poem Birches, what type(s) of imagery is/are at work?

"It's when I'm weary of considerations,

And life is too much like a pathless wood

Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs

Broken across it, and one eye is weeping"

• organic

• olfactory

• visual

• kinesthetic