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Imagery. Cora Moore Savannah Hall. What is Imagery?. Imagery is the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things. How Imagery is used. It is used to help the reader contain a mental image of the person, place, or object that the author is describing. Examples.
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Imagery Cora Moore Savannah Hall
What is Imagery? • Imagery is the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things.
How Imagery is used • It is used to help the reader contain a mental image of the person, place, or object that the author is describing.
Examples • Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk. • Her eyes were yellow as if the sun had arrived.
Poor examples • Once again her skin was soft as if she wear wearing 10 lbs of lotion. • How can we make this better?
Finding imagery in Poems • Annabel Lee ~ Edgar Allen Poe • What Do We Do About Grandma? ~Arden Davidson
Find Imagery in the songs • Breath ~ Breaking benjamin • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3qJmgktS0 • Dust in the Wind ~ Kansas • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ
Music Videos • Find an examples of imagery in next videos (don’t have to write down) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtvqT_wMeY • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk