IMAGERY and the senses in Literature Ms. L Language Arts
What is the most important sense? What are the 5 senses? Touch Taste Smell Hearing Sight What is the most important sense?
Authors use IMAGERY to make their work come to LIFE WHY IMAGERY? Authors use IMAGERY to make their work come to LIFE IMAGERY: The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
Imagery that stimulates the sense of TOUCH TACTILE IMAGERY Imagery that stimulates the sense of TOUCH Ex. “The cat’s fur felt like a shaggy rug.” “My mother’s hands were warm like fresh dough.” The way things FEEL when you touch them
Imagery that stimulates the sense of TASTE Gustatory Imagery Imagery that stimulates the sense of TASTE “I hated mom’s cooking. Every night I would put a fake smile on my face as I ate a meal that tasted like an old, used garbage bag.”
Olfactory Imagery that stimulates the sense of SMELL “Her perfume is what caught my attention first. It was sweet. Gentle. I knew she acted as sweet as she smelled.”
Imagery that stimulates the sense of Auditory Imagery Imagery that stimulates the sense of HEARING “It was a deafening sound. It only got louder if your argued with her. Her screams ran shivers down my spine.”
Imagery that stimulates the sense of Visual Imagery Imagery that stimulates the sense of SIGHT “Her hair reminded me of wild tumbleweeds, always blowing in the wind and blocking her face. The strands of her blond hair matched her pale skin.”
GUESS THE IMAGERY From The Widow's Lament in Springtime "masses of flowers load the cherry branches and color some bushes yellow and some red..." (William Carlos Williams)
And the IMAGERY is???? From Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold) "Listen! You hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in." (Matthew Arnold)