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Imagery Language

Imagery Language v Imagery is language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader or the listener. v The imagery comes into the reader's mind through their senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. The imagery are named according to the senses that capture them and take place imaginatively.

Visual imagery v Visual imagery describes what we see, relating to visual scenes, graphics, pictures, or the sense of sight. v Visual imagery may include: Ø Color, such as: burnt red, bright orange, and dull yellow. Ø Shapes, such as: square, circular, tubular, and rectangular Ø Size, such as: tiny, small, medium-sized, large, and gigantic. Ø Pattern, such as: polka-dotted, zig-zagged, and straight.

Ø Example: Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind By Stephen Crane Swift, blazing flag of the regiment, Eagle with crest of red and gold, These men were born to drill and die. Point for them the virtue of slaughter Make plain to them the excellence of killing And a field where a thousand corpses lie.

Auditory Imagery v Auditory imagery describes what we hear, relating to sound. v Auditory imagery may include: Ø Enjoyable sounds, such as: beautiful music, birdsong Ø Noises, such as: the bang of a gun, the sound of broken glass shattering on the hard floor.

Ø Example : I Hear an Army Charging Upon the Land I hear an army charging upon the land And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand Disdaining the rains, with fluttering whips, the charioteers

Tactile Imagery v Tactile Imagery is an imagery which relates with sense of touch v Tactile Imagery may include Ø Texture, such as: Hard, Soft, Rough, Smooth Ø Movement, such as: Quick, Slow, etc Ø Temprature, such as: Hot, Warm, Cold

v Example : Arms and the Boy Let the boy try along this bayonet blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood Blue with all like malice, like a madman’s fish And thinly drawn with famishing for flash

Gustatory imagery v Gustatory imagery refers to imagery related to the sense of taste. v It can include : Ø Sweetness, such as candies, cookies, and desserts. Ø Sourness, bitterness such as lemons and limes. Ø Saltiness, such as French fries, and pepperonis. Ø Spiciness, such as salsas and curries.

Example : Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine, Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue Can burst Joy’s grape against his palate fine (John Keats) “Strenuous tongue” in line three connected to line four “can burst Joy’s grape against his palate fine” can give a taste of grape.

Olfactory Imagery v Olfactory Imagery is concerning aromas, smell, odors, scents, or the sense of smell. v To evoke olfactory imagery, conjure up the following smells: Ø Petrol fumes Ø Newly baked bread Ø Chlorine Ø New mown grass Ø Freshly brewed coffee

Ø Example : Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty try, (Shakespeare) Hard Berg (methought), so cold, so vast, With mortal damps self overcast; Exhaling still thy dankish breath – (Melville) Ø the phrase in the first stanza represents the image of the foul and phrase in the second stanza representing the image of the smell of breath.

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