Friday, October 23, 2009

IMAGERY

Imagery is the verbal expression of a sensory experience. It uses descriptive or figurative language to create words into pictures. The most common things used for imagery are the 5 senses. There is sight, sound, touch, taste, smell.

Sight is the sense that you use to see things. In a book it is a description of what something looks like. In Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson, an example is located on page 66. "the tin bathing tub". This describes a bathing tub that is made of tin. This helps you picture what that looks like.

Sound is the sense you use to hear things. In a book it is thedescription of what something sounds like. There is an example on page 67 "her teeth rattled" You can imagine the sound of someones teeth rattling. This helps you feel like you are in the book and hear what the protagonist hears.

Touch is the sense you use to feel something. In a book it is the description of how something feels like. On pg 213 Mattie said "Lumpy Mattress" This gives you an idea of what it would the mattress feel like when you touched it.

Taste is the sense you use to know the flavor of something. In a book it is the description of the flavor of a certain object. An good example is the one on page 67. "it tasted too horrible" This gives you an example that the food she ate tasted bad and you can immediately imagine eating something bad.

Smell is the sense that you use to identify the fragrance of an object. In a book it is the description of a fragrance. "I could smell the stench,"pg 146. Mattie said this because a stench means, something that doesn't have a pleasant fragrance. This allows you to imagine yourself in the place of the main character and identify the horrible smell.

Why do you think that imagery is important?
Why do you think that the author uses imagery in his/her books?

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