Imagery
Imagery refers to mental pictures created by words.
Literal images: are the words used to describe something directly by appealing to one or more of our sensory faculties.
Visual Images: Consist of things we can see.
Tactile Images: Appeal to our sense of touch.
Auditory Images: Suggest the sounds of things
Olfactory Images: Suggest the smell of things
Kinaesthetic Images: Refer to actions or motions
Gustatory Images: Suggest the taste of things.
Our Country by Dorothea MacKeller
Literal images: are the words used to describe something directly by appealing to one or more of our sensory faculties.
Visual Images: Consist of things we can see.
Tactile Images: Appeal to our sense of touch.
Auditory Images: Suggest the sounds of things
Olfactory Images: Suggest the smell of things
Kinaesthetic Images: Refer to actions or motions
Gustatory Images: Suggest the taste of things.
Our Country by Dorothea MacKeller
Your task over Tuesday and Wednesday:
Please choose one of these images to showcase your skills. You can write about them in anyway that you like but I would like to see lots of imagery used, with rhyme and rhythm, the use of metaphors and similes if you can manage it! This poem should be your show stopper!