Types Of Imagery

Types of Imagery

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Complete the notes and practices below.

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Imagery: There are

different kinds of imagery.

1. Visual Imagery: Examples: • “Magnified apples appear and disappear … every fleck of russet showing clear.” • “The clouds were low and hairy … like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.” • “The iced branches shed ‘crystal shells.’” Your turn:

2. Auditory Imagery: Examples: • “The rumbling … of load on load of apples coming in.” • “The miniature thunder … the clatter of stone.” • “The roar of trees, the crack of branches, beating on a box.” Your turn:

3. Olfactory Imagery: Examples: • “Musk from hidden grapevine springs.” • “The sticks of wood ‘sweet scented stuff’” • “To a Young Wretch – the boy takes the tree and heads home, ‘smelling green.’” Your turn:

4. Gustatory Imagery: Examples: • “The blueberries as big as your thumb … with the flavor of soot.” • “The walking boots that taste of Atlantic and Pacific salt.” • “A haying machine passes over a bird nest without ‘tasting flesh.’” Your turn:

5. Tactile Imagery: Examples: • “So love will take between the hands and face.” • “The bed linens might just as well be ice and clothes snow.” • “You grasp the bark by a rugged pleat, and look up small from the forest’s feet.” Your turn:

6. Organic Imagery: Examples: • “My heart owns a doubt; it costs no inward struggle not to go.” • “It’s when I’m weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood.” • “Trees drinking up the pools and along with it, the flowers.” Your turn:

7. Kinesthetic Imagery: Examples: • “I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.” • “Leaves go up in a coil and hissed, blindly struck at my knee and missed.” • “The black bats tumble and dart.” Your turn:

You Try It! Focus on the painting and write a short story about it, trying to include as many of the seven different types of imagery as you can.