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It Was Dark and Dim in The Forest.: Simile Metaphor Personification Onomatopoeia

The document discusses imagery and how it uses figurative language to represent ideas in a way that appeals to our senses. Imagery can create mental pictures but is more complex, using words that represent different senses like sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste. It also uses figures of speech like simile and metaphor.

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It Was Dark and Dim in The Forest.: Simile Metaphor Personification Onomatopoeia

The document discusses imagery and how it uses figurative language to represent ideas in a way that appeals to our senses. Imagery can create mental pictures but is more complex, using words that represent different senses like sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste. It also uses figures of speech like simile and metaphor.

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Imagery means to use figurative language to represent objects, actions and

ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.


Usually it is thought that imagery makes use of particular words that create
visual representation of ideas in our minds. The word imagery is associated
with mental pictures. However, this idea is but partially correct. Imagery, to be
realistic, turns out to be more complex than just a picture. Read the following
examples of imagery carefully:
It was dark and dim in the forest. The words dark and dim are
visual images.
The children were screaming and shouting in the fields. - Screaming
and shouting appeal to our sense of hearing or auditory sense.
He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee. whiff and aroma evoke our
sense of smell or olfactory sense.
The girl ran her hands on a soft satin fabric. The idea of soft in this
example appeals to our sense of touch or tactile sense.
The fresh and juicy orange are very cold and sweet. juicy and
sweet when associated with oranges have an effect on our sense of
taste or gustatory sense.
Imagery needs the aid of figures of speech
like simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia etc. in order to appeal to
the bodily senses. Let us analyze how famous poets and writers use imagery
in literature.

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