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Imagery 

Imagery . Show! Don’t tell!. Images:. Representations of anything we can see, hear, taste, touch, or smell. Ex.) A painter or sculptor can create an image of an apple so true to life that we can feel it in our hands, or even taste it!

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Imagery 

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  1. Imagery  Show! Don’t tell!

  2. Images: • Representations of anything we can see, hear, taste, touch, or smell. • Ex.) A painter or sculptor can create an image of an apple so true to life that we can feel it in our hands, or even taste it! • Ex.) A poet, using only words, can make us see and feel, taste and smell an apple by describing it as “rosy,” “shiny,” “heavy,” “mushy,” or “sweet.”

  3. Imagery: • The language that appeals to our five senses and creates images in our minds • any series of words that create a picture, or sensory experience. • Ex.) One asks, "What color are your living room walls?" The answer to this question is commonly retrieved by using imagery (by a person mentally "seeing" one's living room walls).

  4. How to create imagery in writing: • Such images can be created by using figures of speech such as: • similes • metaphors • personification • assonance • alliteration • Imagery helps the reader imagine the sensations described as they are related through the language of the author. • A simplistic view is that one can think of the imagery as painting a picture with words.

  5. Figurative Language • similes - comparison of two unlike things, typically marked by use of "like", "as", "than", or "resembles". • Curley was flopping like a fish on a line. • metaphors - language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects (and does not use the above words).

  6. Figurative Language cont. • personification - figure of speech that gives an inanimate object or abstract idea human traits and qualities, such as emotions, desires, sensations, physical gestures and speech. • The flowers were suffering from the immense heat. • The book was sitting on a table. • assonance - repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words. • Do you like blue? • Alliteration – repetition of consonant sounds in non-rhyming words • Sally sells sea shells by the seashore.

  7. Example of Imagery Asthe last seconds ticked down, the fans gripped their chilled drinks in anticipation. After the clock hit zero, the yellow and black suits stormed the green beaten field. They cried in excitement and exhaustion while they hugged teammates. Fromthe sky red, blue, and white streamers danced down through the gentle smoke from the fireworks. The head coach was showered with freezing cold Gatorade that soaked every inch of his body and ran into his mouth and greeted him with sweetness. The look on his face was proud; he was clearly in disbelief that this happened to him. Yes, he had won the Superbowl.

  8. gripped their chilled yellow and black green beaten cried in excitement hugged a teammate red, blue, and white streamers danced down gentle smoke showered with freezing cold Gatorade greeted him with sweetness touch sight sight hear sight sight smell touch, sight sight, touch, taste Using imagery

  9. Individual Practice - Imagery • Add words to expand each sentence to create a strong visual image. • 1.) …cat jumped… • 2.) …child ran… • 3.) …cow grazed… • 4.) …team cheered … • 5.) …Scottie barked…

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