refers to the mental representations of pictures, sounds, smells textures and tastes that are created through powerful or interesting use of language. Imagery can often refer to figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and personification.
the writing method used to "create a sensory picture in the mind of the reader...frequently used to describe the pictures created through the use of figurative language like similies and metaphors."
A graphical 2-dimensional representation of an object, or the Earth's surface. An image can be produced by an optical device, such as a photographic camera, or an electronic device, such as a scanner. Remotely sensed images taken from a satellite are digital representations of the Earth's surface.
the elements in a literary work used to evoke mental images, not only of the visual sense, but of sensation and emotion as well
a grouping of word pictures that create a single sense impression of sight, sound, taste, touch, or smell.
Using the imagination to fantasize or remember events.
Words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences for a reader.
Words the author uses to put a picture in the reader's mind.
when you visualize or look inside your mind at something and examine it
the employment of images in a given passage of a literary work, a whole work or a group of works.
Visual representation of features recorded by cameras on film or by sensing devices with information stored and displayed digitally.
Imagery is the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement.
Consciously creating visual images to trigger whole body movement in a personal way.
1. n. an image is a word or expression that speaks directly to one or more of the senses; imagery also refers to descriptive passages in literature; 2. n. pictures in words, especially similes and metaphors. For instance, a visual image is given in the following description of the Seine in Paris: "The river was brown and green -olive-green under the bridges- and a rainbow-coloured scum floated at the sides." [Jean Rhys
a word or sequence of words referring to a sensory experience, whether visual, tactile, or auditory
Utilizing the power of the individual's imagination to bypass the critical conscious mind.
Mental pictures created by the words of the poem.
Descriptions which create visual pictures or sense-impressions (often representing emotions or the theme of the piece). Includes metaphors, similes, and symbols.
a series of vivid mental pictures provided by the author (for example, Jewett in "A White Heron" refers to Sylvia as a flower whose stem has been broken (when the hunter arrives) (676); she also suggests that Sylvia, until she comes to the country, is like the geranium in the city which could not thrive (675) - thus, Jewett associates Sylvia with the natural world through the images she chooses ( a single image is also a vivid mental picture: "Sylvia's face was like a pale star" (680) - this image includes a comparison using like or as (a simile)) Inauthentic choice (acting in bad faith): going against one's personal standards or ethical code and bowing to the demands or expectations of others, especially when such choices conflict with one's own best judgement (acting in bad faith is also described as lying to oneself, or pretending that something which is voluntary is actually necessary) -- Sartre
is language which conveys to the reader a sense of really experiencing the story.
a form of therapy where the participant visualizes or imagines the desired outcome. For example, one could visualize their disease as little black boxes and see a rushing stream washing them out of the body.
the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"
A method of pain control that uses mental images produced by memory or imagination.
Mental images or pictures as produced by memory or imagination. Educators in increasing numbers are learning the importance of teaching children how to "see," that is, how to create images in their minds. One such method now being used in many classrooms is guided fantasy. The child closes his/her eyes and tries to create images that have been stimulated by a story or poem the teacher is reading. After the fantasy, the children are usually asked to tell, write, or draw about what they have imaged.
Diction that describes the five senses (tactile, visual, auditory, olfactory, and emotional). example- "The King of the jungle was sleeping, the spotted and black panthers were pacing their stinky cages like mad doctors. The rhino was bathing in lukewarm mud, and the elephant and giant turtle were doing nothing." Gary Soto "One of the villageís Jesuit Priests began playing an alto recorder, playing a wordless song, lyric, in a minor key, that twined over the village creaning, that caught in the big treesí canopies, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the river, dissolving downstream." Annie Dillard "The country round appeared like a continued garden, and the enclosed fields, which were generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers." Jonathan Swift "Honeysuckle and purple wisteria hung from the trees and white magnolias mixed with their scents in the bee-humming air." Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man
descriptive language which helps us see, hear, smell, taste, or feel
forming mental images to create meaning
a graphic representation or description of a scene, typically produced by an optical or electronic device. Common examples include remotely sensed data (e.g., satellite data), scanned data, and photographs. An image is stored as a raster data set of binary or integer values that represent the intensity of reflected light, heat, or other range of values on the electromagnetic spectrum.
figurative language used to produce mental pictures and appeal to senses
forms of mental representations that can appear to reflect all sensory modalieties (sight, sound, touch, smell, kinaesthetic feedback from limbs and body posture etc).
sensory details which provide concrete mental pictures for the reader
The situations, people, or emotions a singer pictures in his or her head while they sing, in order to achieve emotion and a good level of acting in their songs. Imagery may also be used to help a singer achieve better vocal technique.
Visible representation of objects and (or) phenomena as sensed or detected by cameras, infrared and multispectral scanners, radar, and photometers. Recording may be on photographic emulsion (directly as in a camera or indirectly after being first recorded on magnetic tape as an electrical signal) or on magnetic tape for subsequent conversion and display on a cathode ray tube.
The use of words that paint a vivid, concrete picture, an image. The Course presents many of its abstract ideas in the form of emotionally-charged, even humorous images: See how life springs up everywhere! The desert becomes a garden, green and deep and quiet, offering rest to those who lost their way and wander in the dust. (T-18.VIII.9:2-3) Can you paint rosy lips upon a skeleton, dress it in loveliness, pet it and pamper it, and make it live? (T-23.II.18:8)
A cognitive-behavioral strategy that uses mental images as an aid to relaxation.
The use of mental images which come to conscious awareness during a deeply relaxed state to motivate the body's healing response.
the term used to refer to the literary devices (such as metaphor, simile, or symbolism) used to create or allude to an image.
1. The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things. 2. Pictorial images. 3. The use of rhetorical images. 4. Figurative description or illustration.
(see also metaphor, simile, and symbolism): Imagery is the use of images to convey meaning. Concrete images, like sunlight, for example, will often be linked to nontangible emotions, like happiness, to give readers a better sense of things that can't always be easily described.
Language that appeals to any sense or any combination of the senses.
Descriptive writing that draws on vivid sensory descriptions and figurative language to re-create an experience for a reader.
The array of image s in a literary work. Also, figurative language. William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming" offers a powerful image of encroaching anarchy: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart....
generally: all figurative or non-literal language. Specifically, imagery suggests visual and tangible pictures by using words.
Words and phrases that appeal to the five senses
term used to describe words or phrases that appeal to the five senses. Figurative language may create images, but not all images are figures of speech.
The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas; the use of expressive or evocative images in art, literature, or music; a group or body of related images, as in a painting or poem.
refers to the use of description, figures of speech and pictures to create ideas and feelings
Refers to the use of language to represent things, actions or abstract ideas descriptively. In its most common use, imagery suggests visual pictures, but it can also denote other sensory experiences (i.e. auditory).
The use of pictures, description, or figures of speech such as SIMILES and METAPHORS to visualize a mood, idea or CHARACTER. Imagery may involve all the senses, but usually involves the sense of sight. The imagery of William Carlos Williams' poetry, for example, tends to involve the appearances of everyday, ordinary objects like a "red wheel / barrow / glazed with rain / water . . . ."
Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses.
means both the images and figures of speech used in a work. Images are descriptions of people, places, or things -- usually written for visual comprehension, though sometimes for other senses. Imagery in the sense of "figure of speech" means the metaphors, similes, and symbols used rhetorically to give a more abstract definition of a person, place, or thing.
broadly defined, any sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe an object.
is description that appeals to one or more of our five senses. See, for example, Will Ferguson's description of Sudbury's cliffs in "The Sudbury Syndrome": "... Sudbury's slag pile glaciers, the scorched tailings of the city's infamous nickel mines. Rail cars roll up to the edge, then pause, tilt and pour out the molten slag, casting an orange echo against the sky, like the castle defences of a medieval siege. The slag cools into a crust, then blackens, and is in turn covered." Imagery is used to help bring clarity and vividness to descriptive writing. Induction
A technique that uses visualization for the purposes of healing.
The use of pictures, figures of speech and description to evoke ideas feelings, objects actions, states of mind etc.
The sensory detail (not just visual) referring more specifically to figures of speech, which produce mental images for the reader.
is a word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell. The use of images serves to intensify the impact of the work. Example: Throughout the play of Macbeth, Shakespeare effectively uses blood imagery to create suspense and horror. Blood imagery is also used to describe murder, treason, and death.
the use of descriptive language to appeal to the the reader's five sentences (sound, touch, taste, smell, sight).
A technique in which the person focuses on positive images in his or her mind.
Descriptions in a poem that make the reader conjure mental images.
figurative or descriptive language which builds a mental picture of a person, place or idea.
the production of sense appeal through the use of figurative language.
Both a mental process (as in imagining) and a wide variety of procedures used in therapy to encourage changes in attitudes, behavior, or physiological reactions. As a mental process, it is often defined as "any thought representing a sensory quality." It includes, as well as the visual, all the senses - aural, tactile, olfactory, proprioceptive, and kinesthetic. See the entire definition of Imagery
language that suggests how someone or something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes
Directed reverie therapies ; Directed reverie therapy ; Guided imagery ; Imageries (Psychotherapy) ; Imagery The use of mental images produced by the imagination as a form of psychotherapy. It can be classified by the modality of its content: visual, verbal, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, or kinesthetic. Common themes derive from nature imagery (e.g., forests and mountains), water imagery (e.g., brooks and oceans), travel imagery, etc. Imagery is used in the treatment of mental disorders and in helping patients cope with other diseases. Imagery often forms a part of HYPNOSIS, of AUTOGENIC TRAINING, of RELAXATION TECHNIQUES, and of BEHAVIOR THERAPY. (From Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, vol. 4, pp29-30, 1994) Imagery
Imagining an event in order to make a judgment.
The creation of images using words. Poets usually achieve this by invoking comparisons by means of metaphor or simile or other figures of speech. In his famous line from sonnet 18 Shakespeare creates an image by comparing his love to a 'summer's day'.
Sentences that appeal to the five senses.
Imagery is any literary reference to the five senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste). Essentially, imagery is any words that create a picture in your head. Such images can be created by using figures of speech such as similes, metaphors, personification, and assonance.