ImageryCora MooreSavannah Hall
What is Imagery? Imagery is the formation of mental
images, figures, or likenesses of things.
How Imagery is used It is used to help the reader contain a
mental image of the person, place, or object that the author is describing.
Examples Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun,
blue as the sky, but soft as silk. Her eyes were yellow as if the sun had
arrived.
Poor examples Once again her skin was soft as if she
wear wearing 10 lbs of lotion.
How can we make this better?
Finding imagery in Poems Annabel Lee ~ Edgar Allen Poe What Do We Do About Grandma?
~Arden Davidson
Find Imagery in the songs Breath ~ Breaking benjamin http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3qJmgktS0
Dust in the Wind ~ Kansas http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ
Music Videos Find an examples of imagery in next
videos (don’t have to write down) http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtvqT_wMeY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk