Types of Imagery

She walked outside, looking at the sunset filling the sky will colorful pigments or orange, yellow, and red.

• Olfactory Imagery

• Visual Imagery

• Tactile Imagery

• Gustatory Imagery

She walked towards the kitchen, the sounds of kid's sound laughter filling the air, along with the clattering of pots and pans.

• Tactile Imagery

• Visual Imagery

• Auditory Imagery

• Olfactory Imagery

"The sweet scent of maple wafted through the room, causing Stephanie to stop what she was doing and sniff the air."

• Gustatory Imagery

• Olfactory Imagery

• Kinesthetic Imagery

• Visual Imagery

"The rich, sweet, sugary taste of chocolate ran over his taste buds as he chewed and swallowed the whole dessert in less than ten seconds."

• Gustatory Imagery

• Olfactory Imagery

• Kinesthetic Imagery

• Auditory Imagery

He picked up the lid off the pot but quickly dropped it, after feeling the heat from the lid quickly moving throughout his hand, making it swell with redness.

• Visual Imagery

• Kinesthetic Imagery

• Olfactory Imager

• Tactile Imagery

What is/are the best primary objective(s) of the writer in using different types of imagery?

• Encourage the reader to keep on reading

• Allow the reader to "draw" or create an image, even without the stimulus of a written passage.

• Evoke the reader's emotions.

• Makes descriptions more dramatic for the reader.

Which of these is the best definition of imagery?

• anything that is literal
• giving a human trait to something non-human
• language that appeals to the reader's five senses
•  descriptions that are not literally true

What is the purpose of imagery in writing?

• To engage the reader by changing points of view multiple times

• To make the writing more interesting and help readers understand what is being described

• To excite the reader by using different writing methods

• To show the difference between dynamic and static character types

Does the following sentence use imagery?

The golden sun shines bright and warm on my skin

• Yes

• No

It is the imagery use to address our sense of vision. In that way, the reader can visualize what is happening in the story in her or his own mind.

• visual imagery

• olfactory imagery

• gustatory imagery

• auditory imagery