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Imagery: The Poem’s Link to the Senses

ImageryRefers to words that trigger imagination to recall and recombine images.Strongest modes of leterary expression because it provdes a channel to your actie imaginationWriters bring their works directly to you and into your consciousness.

Responses & Use of Detail

Responses & Use of DetailHelp us to visualize the vivid expressions of the author’s words.

Ideas and AttitudesAuthenticating effects

Offer new ways of seeing the worldStrengthening old ideasForm a link with readers that is clearVerifiabble by observation

One of the strongest means by which writers reinforce ideas

Types of ImageryVisual Images

Language of sight.Key to remembrance of other senses impressions.Most frequently occurring literary imagery.

Let’s Read!Browning 733;

Ruckert 749;

Shakespeare 749.