-Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers Imagery “The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy.” -Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

Imagery -- is the words or phrases a writer selects to create a certain picture in the reader’s mind. Imagery is usually based on sensory details.

Imagery Here is a method you can use to understand imagery better. You may be asked to the following with a story you have read. Describe or draw one vivid image that you recall from this story. Compare your picture with you classmates’. Is your image the same as any of theirs?

Describing Images: Appealing to the Senses When writers describe things, they create images—pictures drawn with words. To help readers imagine places, events, and characters, they use language that appeals to the senses.

Creating Images A poet uses words the way a painter uses colors. Like painters, poets want to share a special, personal vision of the world. To do that, poets create images, or pictures.

Imagery is language that appeals to the senes. Harlem Night Song …Across The Harlem roof-tops Moon is shining. Night sky is blue. Stars are great drops Of golden dew. Langston Hughes

Imagery Is the language that appeals to any of the five senses, most often sight, but also hearing, touch, taste, and smell.