1. Imagery

2. What is Imagery?
an author's use of vivid and descriptive language that appeals to one or more senses to evoke a mental picture of scenes
Author’s use imagery in order to enhance a reader’s experiences and understanding of the text by appealing to human emotions and senses

3. Sensory Details vs. Imagery
Sensory details is used to get an image
Imagery is when you read and get an image while the author is describing something

4. Forms of Imagery
7 Main Types of imagery that relate to a human sense, feeling, or action:
Visual
Auditory
Olfactory
Gustatory
Tactile
Kinesthetic
Organic

5. Visual Imagery Most widely used
Helps reader’s visualize a particular image (events or places) through sight
Example:
“The shadows crisscrossed the rug while my cat stretched languidly in one of the patches of sun.”

6. Auditory Imagery Relates to a sound
Often comes in the form of onomatopoeia
Example:
“The rumbling sound of clouds, indicated the start of a monsoon.”
“She heard a crash, followed immediately by the crackling and breaking of glass, and then a thud, like the sound of a bowling ball being dropped.”

7. Olfactory Imagery
Relates to an odor and helps the reader conjure up smells
Example:
“ I was awakened by the strong smell of freshly brewed coffee.”

8. Gustatory Evokes the sense of taste in one’s mind Example:
“ She served the bland sea-shell pasta with the sweet mariana sauce.”

9. Tactile
Relates to the sense of touch and the texture that something may feel
Example:
“ The cold water touched her skin and she felt a shudder run down her spine.”

10. Kinesthetic Relates to movement or action Example:
“ Her heartbeat was so loud, she felt it could be heard across the room.”

11. Organic
Relates to feelings of the body, including hunger, thirst, and fatigue
Example:
“It’s when I’m weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood.”