Imagery is using most of the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch,ect.) to describe something (person, place, action, situation, ect.). It often is used to create an emotional repsonse in the reader.
Example 1:
As the girl sat on the wheater worn boulder, her eyes were drawn to the tumbling, dark, wet, gray clouds in the distant, rolling over each other as though in a hurry to reach her. Waves of wind brushed genlty across her cheeks, leaving streaks of water residue. Something about the deathly sky held her transfixed in awe at its majesty.
Eample 2:
"The rabbit, a floppy-eared, speckled gray longhair with an adorable pink nose was being used by Couture as part of an eyeshadow-allergy research project.... Lovingly cradling the rescued rabbit as [the commando] walked past the charred and dismembered bodies of its captors.... She then fed the rabbit a carrot, causing its adorable pink nose to wiggle up and down, up and down as it chewed, making cute little chewy-faces. "
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That is a great example of imagery! I love how most of it seems to give me a dreary and negative feeling. Yet then at the end the words "awe" and "majesty" can change it to make it seem positive. It can really touch differnt emotions within just one sentence!
ReplyDeleteThanks Courtney, that was what I was going for. I often see imagery as a form of poetry; you need to get the words just right in oder for the effect of it to work well.
ReplyDeleteI thinks imagery is a key component to our writing. Without it, our words would sound "dark, gray" etc but with it they "transfix and awe" the audience. Nice sentences and I agree with Courtney that they each touch different emotions and yet balance one another to create good harmony.
ReplyDeleteYou did an excelent job at your example. I liked how you also used other things that we have been talking about, like personification. It shows how everything works together.
ReplyDeleteI really like the example.
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