imagery
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 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
- 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
- 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.
- And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «imagery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.