Exploring Imagery in Poetry

 

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

This imagery addresses our sense of hearing. To create a complete mental picture in the minds of the reader about the incident in the story, the writer incorporates a description of the sounds too.

• visual imagery

• auditory imagery

• olfactory imagery

• tactile imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

This imagery addresses our sense of smell. The author describes the object using the sense of smell.

• visual image

• gustatory imagery

• auditory imagery,

• olfactory imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

This type of imagery is use address to our taste buds. This way the writer is capable of making us taste the food he or she is describing in the story.

• auditory imagery

• olfactory imagery

• gustatory imagery

• visual imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

This type of imagery addresses our sense of touch or that which we can feel with our skin.

• olfactory imagery

• tactile imagery

• gustatory imagery

• visual imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The sky was wide and very blue. The imagery used in the sentence is _____________.

• visual imagery

• olfactory imagery

• gustatory imagery

• tactile imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The eerie silence was shattered by her scream. The underlined word is _____________.

• tactile imagery

• auditory imagery

• gustatory imagery,

• olfactory imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When the heat of the rolling wind can be turned away.

• Visual imagery

• Olfactory imagery

• Tactile imagery

• Gustatory imagery

• Auditory imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I endured the pungent taste of unripe bananas

• Visual

• Olfactory

• Auditory

• Gustatory

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Mouth-watering ripe mangoes sit on the table ready to be devoured.

• Visual imagery

• Olfactory imagery

• Auditory imagery

• Gustatory imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5