Knowra Imagery Imagery Imagery is language that evokes sensory experience or creates vivid mental pictures. It can appeal to sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, or bodily sensation.
Visual imagery : Language that evokes sights, colors, shapes, or spatial arrangements. It creates the mental pictures most commonly associated with imagery.
Sensory language : Words and descriptions that appeal to one or more senses. Imagery is built from language that evokes sensory experience.
Setting : The time and place in which a narrative or dramatic work unfolds. Sensory details make a setting specific and perceptible.
Imagery (psychology) : A mental representation with sensory qualities, experienced without the corresponding external stimulus. Literary imagery is language that evokes experience, not the mental experience itself.
Auditory imagery : Language that evokes sounds, including voices, music, and environmental noise. Sound can make a scene feel immediate even without visual description.
Figurative language : Language that conveys meaning through nonliteral expression or imaginative comparison. Metaphors and related figures can create imagery without literal description.
Mood (literature) : The emotional atmosphere a literary work creates for its audience. Patterns of sensory description can make a scene feel serene, threatening, or bleak.
Description : The use of words to represent the characteristics of a person, place, object, or event. Description can convey facts without producing vivid sensory or mental images.
Tactile imagery : Language that evokes sensations of touch, texture, pressure, or temperature. Descriptions of texture and temperature give imagery a physical dimension.
Metaphor : A figure of speech that describes one thing in terms of another. A metaphor can make an abstract idea perceptible through a concrete image.
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