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Imagery is an author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work.
It is used to describe something that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled (the five senses)
Detail and diction is key when using imagery!
Although they could not see outside the cabin, they could hear the eerie tapping, tapping, tapping, of his knife upon their door.
Though I was on the sheer face of a mountain, the feeling of swinging through the air was euphoric, almost like flying without wings.
The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to make their decent to the ground.
The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.
Within the shadow of the ship
I watched their rich attire:
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
They coiled and swam; and every track
Was a flash of golden fire.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner”
It was a mine town, uranium most
recently. Dust devils whirled sand off the
mountains. Ever after the heaviest of
rains, the water seeped back into the
ground, between stones, and the earth
was parched again.
-Linda Hogan, “Making Do”
She looked into the distance, and the old terror
flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard
her father’s voice and her sister Margaret’s. She heard
the barking of an old dog that was chained to the
sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer
clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the
hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the
air.
-Kate Chopin, The Awakening