Imagery Game

Examples 1

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Descriptive language that creates an image through sight.

What is visual imagery.

200

"And now a gusty shower wraps/ The grimy scraps/ Of withered leaves about your feet/ And newspapers from vacant lots;" - T.S Eliot's "Preludes" Which adjectives were used to appeal to sight?

What is: gusty, wraps, grimy, withered, vacant

300

"The showers beat/ On broken blinds and chimney-pots,/ And at the corner of the street/ A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps/. And then the lighting of the lamps." T.S Eliot's "Preludes" What image is created through the poet's use of visual imagery?

Rain falls on broken window blinds as a single cab-horse moves at the corner of the street beneath lit street lights.

400

"Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,/ And like a ghost she glimmers on to me./ Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,/ And all thy heart lies open unto me." Alfred Tennyson's Summer Night. Words that create a visual image:

What is : droops, milk-white, glimmers, lies, open

500

His body was tubular/ And tapered/ And smoke-blue,/ And as he passed the wharf/ He turned,/ And snapped at a flat-fish/ That was dead and floating./ And I saw the flash of a white throat,/ And a double row of white teeth,/ And eyes of metallic grey,/ Hard and narrow and slit. -Edwin John Pratt What creature is described in the poem?

What is: a shark.

Examples 2

100

Descriptive language intended to capture and represent sound

What is: auditory imagery

200

"...They click upon themselves / As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored / As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel" -Birches by Robert Frost Which two words represent sounds?

What is : Click, cracks

300

"....Which has its sounds, familiar, like the roar / Of trees and crack of branches, common things, / But nothing so like beating on a box" - An Old Mans Winter Night by Robert Frost What three words were used to represent sound?

What is : roar, crack, beating

400

"Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; / There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, / And evening full of the linnet's wings." -W.B Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree Sounds the poet describes in these lines of poetry

What is : The chirping of crickets and buzzing of linnet wings

500

Auditory imagery most commonly uses ________ to describe sounds.

What is : Comparisons

Examples 3

100

Language that describes how something feels with touch

What is : Tactile Imagery

200

'The bed linens might just as well be ice and the clothes snow.' Robert Frost's "The Witch of Coos" The tactile imagery used in this line describes the linens and clothes as...

What is: cold, frigid, freezing, damp

300

The gravel beneath my bare feet was jagged and scraped at my toes with sharp pointed edges. What words create tactile imagery in this sentence?

What is : jagged, sharp, scraped, pointed

400

Solid, firm, stiff, touch These words creates the image of something that is

What is : Hard, resistant, unbreakable

Examples 4

100

Descriptive language that represents smells:

What is : Olfactory Imagery

200

"I lay still and took another minute to smell: I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive smell of silage, as well as the sour dirty laundry spilling over the basket in the hall. I could pick out the acrid smell of Claire's drenched diaper, her sweaty feet, and her hair crusted with sand. The heat compounded the smells, doubled the fragrance."(excerpt from "A Map of the World", Random House) The smells in this passage could be described as:

What is : Sour, acrid, sweaty, warm, fragrance, and sweet.

300

Acrid, bitter, rancid, putrid Words that creates what image of smell

What is : undesirable, odorous smells

Examples 5

100

Descriptive language that captures taste

What is : Gustatory imagery

200

The tart strawberry filling in the pie was too sweet for my taste. Gustatory words that describe the pie:

What is : sweet, tart