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Imagery: Turn Word into Image 
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The word imagery, a visually descriptive and figurative language in literary work, lets the reader bring the story to life through a person's five senses eyes, nose, mouth, touch, and ears.

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When we are watching a movie, we trigger imagery in a word the same way. The reader visualizes it like a movie.

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When we walk through life at imagery, the thing we smell, touch, hear, see, or watch and taste.

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Eyes

The visual description describes what the eyes can see out of them like shape, colors, size, object, and patterns.

Color, Color is endless.
example, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. In the light blue sky.    

 

Size, something measures by what you look at—small, medium, large. You can mix them, for example, small-medium and medium-large.
 

Shape, there are two types of form there are 2D and 3D. 
3d shape, Cube, Cuboid, Cylinder, Sphere, Square Pyramid, and Cone.
2d shape: Octagon, Circle, Pentagon, Rectangle, Triangle, and Square.  

 

Object, item which cannot describe  
example fish, pen and water bottle, fabric type.

 

Pattern, a repeat design
example, red and white stairs. 

Ears

Sound effects, what we perceive in the scene, called Auditory Imagery, we describe what we hear in the story, like everyday life, we make out sounds.

Machine Sound, for example, construction, crane lifting crane, car vroom.
Nature Sound, for example, ocean wave crashing, thunder, and rain.   
Human Sound, for example, coughing, yelling   
Animal Sound, for example, lion roar, bird song
Instrument Sound, for example, the violin plays at a low tempo.

 Nose

The description of something and someone scents called Olfactory Imagery, the sense of smell, almost everything has fragrance. 

Food, butter popcorn odor sweet, creamy and salt     
Plant, daisies a mildly earthy  
Chemical, hydrogen sulfide smells like a rotten egg.
Body, armpit, a musky
Nature, rain, a musky, fresh sweet generally.

Mouth 

Describing taste, called Gustatory Imagery. The mouth has thousands of taste buds that let a person categorize what they are eating.

Sweetness
Sourness
Saltiness
Bitterness  
Savoriness



 

Touch

​Touch brings the feeling in the writing, called Tactile Imagery. The thing you feel when touching someone or something as the reader reads the story or poem.

The type of texture
Surface texture: rough, bumpy, slick, scratchy, smooth, silky, soft, sticky there is endless surface texture.   
Temperature texture ex: cold, hot.




 

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