Literary Device: Types and examples of Imagery

The presentation shows the different types of imagery with their corresponding examples. This will help learners understand this topic better.

1. IMAGERY Appealing to the senses

2. What are the 5 senses? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Sight Sound Touch Taste Smell

3. What descriptive words can be used for this image? What senses do those descriptive words appeal to?

4. Descriptive words: Sensory appeal:

5. Descriptive words: Sensory appeal:

6. Descriptive words: Sensory appeal:

7. Descriptive words: Sensory appeal:

8. Using Imagery response or emotion = WORDS

9. Identifying Imagery Teacher model: The hot July sun beat relentlessly down, casting an orange glare over the farm buildings, the fields, the pond. Even the usually cool green willows bordering the pond hung wilted and dry. Our sun-baked backs ached for relief.

10. Class Activity Identify sensory imagery in the following paragraph: We quickly pulled off our sweaty clothes and plunged into the pond, but the tepid water only stifled us and we soon climbed onto the brown, dusty bank. Our parched throats longed for something cool--a strawberry ice, a tall frosted glass of lemonade.

11. Your Turn! We pulled on our clothes and headed through the dense , crackling underbrush, the sharp briars pulling at our damp jeans, until we reached the watermelon patch. As we began to cut open the nearest melon, we could smell the pungent skin mingling with the dusty odor of the dry earth. Suddenly, the melon gave way with a crack, revealing the deep, pink sweetness inside. Type I: Read the following passage and jot down 5-8 examples of descriptive language, then identify the type of sensory appeal each image targets.

12. Literary Devices Writers often use literary devices to increase the sense of imagery for the reader. The examples include certain writing techniques that can be used to enrich your writing.

13. Figurative Language LIKE/AS Simile Metaphor IS Example : The muscles on his brawny arms are iron bands of power. Example : Her smile was like a glorious sunrise. unlike things direct comparison implied comparison relatively unlike

14. Example: The oak, a regal brute, fell with a creaking, rending cry. Personification WORDS AS sounds animal, an object, or an idea comparison feeling or attitude Example: CRRRAAACCCCKK!! Onomatopoeia

15. Alliteration Example : The whipping wind whistles along the plain. Hyperbole Example : In my day, I had to walk uphill to school every day during snowstorms – both ways!! melody mood c all attention similarities and contrasts emphasize exaggerated

16. Teacher Model Joe was snapping like a demon. Once his teeth closed on the fore leg of a husky, and he crunched down through the bone. Pike, the malingerer, leaped upon the crippled animal, breaking its neck with a quick flash of teeth and a jerk. Buck got a frothing adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the jugular. The warm taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater fierceness. He flung himself upon another, and at the same time felt teeth sink into his own throat. It was Spitz, treacherously attacking from the side.