In this excerpt from Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement, we can almost feel the cabinet and its varnished texture or the joint that is specifically in a dovetail shape. … An old tin petty cash box was hidden under a removable floorboard beneath her bed. Another was a passion for secrets: in a prized varnished cabinet, a secret drawer was opened by pushing against the grain of a cleverly turned dovetail joint, and here she kept a diary locked by a clasp, and a notebook written in a code of her own invention. Example 2Ī taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit. In just a few lines, Bishop mentions many colors including brown, rose, white, and green. You can imagine the fish with tattered, dark brown skin “like ancient wallpaper” covered in barnacles, lime deposits, and sea lice. It beautifies and complicates the image of a fish that has just been caught. This excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish” is brimming with visual imagery. Here are a few examples of imagery in literature: Example 1 Imagery is found throughout literature in poems, plays, stories, novels, and other creative compositions. Imagery commonly helps build compelling poetry, convincing narratives, vivid plays, well-designed film sets, and descriptive songs. It allows readers to directly sympathize with characters and narrators as they imagine having the same sense experiences. Descriptive imagery launches the reader into the experience of a warm spring day, scorching hot summer, crisp fall, or harsh winter. Movement, such as burning muscles from exertion, swimming in cold water, or kicking a soccer ball.īecause we experience life through our senses, a strong composition should appeal to them through the use of imagery.Touch, such as hand-holding, one’s in the grass, or the feeling of starched fabric on one’s skin.Texture, such as rough, ragged, seamless, and smooth.Temperature, such as bitter cold, humidity, mildness, and stifling heat.Lastly, tactile imagery describes what we feel or touch. Savoriness, such as a steak dinner or thick soup.Saltiness, such as pretzels, French fries, and pepperonis.Sourness, bitterness, and tartness, such as lemons and limes.Sweetness, such as candies, cookies, and desserts.Gustatory imagery describes what we taste. Odors, such as rotting trash, body odors, or a stinky wet dog.Fragrances, such as perfumes, enticing food and drink, and blooming flowers.Olfactory imagery describes what we smell. The lack of noise, describing a peaceful calm or eerie silence.Noises, such as: the bang of a gun, the sound of a broom moving across the floor, and the sound of broken glass shattering on the hard floor.
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