Imagery and Types of Imagery

What is imagery?

• Imagery refers to the use of vivid and descriptive language to create mental images or sensory experiences for the reader.

• Imagery refers to types of imagery that often use metaphor, simile, or personification in their description.

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the poet appeals to the reader's sense of taste by describing something the speaker or narrator of the poems tastes.

• Visual Imagery

• Auditory Imagery

• Gustatory Imagery

• Tactile Imagery

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Appeals to the reader's sense of hearing or sound.

• Auditory Imagery

• Visual Imagery

• Tactile Imagery

• Olfactory Imagery

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The poet appeals to the reader's sense of sight by describing something the speaker or narrator of the poem sees.

• Auditory Imagery

• Olfactory Imagery

• Tactile Imagery

• Visual Imagery

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The poet appeals to the reader's sense of touch by describing something the speaker of the poem feels on their body.

• Tactile Imagery

• Olfactory Imagery

• Gustatory Imagery

• Visual Imagery

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The poet appeals to the reader's sense of smell by describing something the speaker of the poem inhales.

• Auditory Imagery

• Visual Imagery

• Olfactory Imagery

• Gustatory Imagery

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Which one is auditory imagery?

• "Hearing my sisters Humming"

• "Putting my foot in an ice-cold welly"

• "Having the house all tidy and spotless"

• "Spiders in our loft"

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Which one is Visual Imagery?

• "Parsnips, cabbage"

• "Posh voices, smelly feet, kippers"

• "Having the house all tidy and spotless"

• "School chocolate pudding with green custard"

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Which one is Tactile Imagery?

• "The smell of creosote"

• "Washing, cleaning shoes"

• "Cartoons, westerns, comedy, pop-stars"

• "Smelly feet, kippers"

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Which on id Olfactory Imagery?

• "My bed, my new bike, my favourite chair"

• "Vinegar, mustard"

• "The taste of parsley"

• "The smell of creosote"

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