imagery

«imagery» in Mova's judaism dictionary: the use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (imagery — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Imagery is the use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind, using descriptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and feelings, often through similes and metaphors. tree →

2) Imagery is also pictures or images, such as satellite imagery or the images in a film or painting. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means carved or fancy pictures, perhaps beautiful sculpted things on ships, that people were proud of. Interpretation: Isaiah warns that God will bring low everything people are proud of. Tradition reads this as a warning against pride in wealth and trade. In the primary lessons: In English lessons, pupils look for imagery in poems and stories and explain its effect: «The sun was a golden coin» is imagery. In geography and science, satellite imagery shows the Earth from space. Common phrases: «vivid imagery», «use imagery», «satellite imagery», «powerful imagery», «religious imagery».

examples

• And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery. (Prophets ISA.2.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• The poem uses imagery of the sea and storms. tree →
• Find two examples of imagery in the first paragraph. tree →
• The writer's vivid imagery made me feel I was in the forest. tree →
• Satellite imagery showed the size of the bushfire. tree →
• Church windows are full of religious imagery. tree →
• Similes and metaphors are kinds of imagery. tree →
• The film's imagery was dark and frightening. tree →

note

Uncountable: «a lot of imagery», not «imageries». Say IM-ij-ree. Related: «image», «imagine», «imagination». In tests, when asked about imagery, name the picture it creates and how it makes you feel.

In the corpora

• And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery.
• A song stuck in your head is called an earworm; scientists call it involuntary musical imagery, and most people get them.
• Poems paint pictures with words, called imagery.
• Imagery means pictures made with words.
• Free verse is poetry without regular rhyme; poems use line breaks, imagery and rhythm, not only rhyme.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «imagery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.