It is an active and even vigorous process for the reader, for when words or descriptions produce images they are using their personal experiences with life and language to help you understand the works they are reading.
Imagery lives even if the reader doesn’t necessarily understand the image. It is important to always remember that the writer and reader will react very differently to the same image.
Writers use imagery to give the reader a new way of seeing the world and/or a way of strengthening their old ways of seeing it.
Imagery dramatises the work, and we can use this to our advantage. Descriptive language can alter the tone of the image based on the connotation of the words we use in our descriptions.
For those who write poetry (not to say that other genre writers can’t keep this in mind) the freshness, newness and surprise of much poetry result from the many and varied areas from which writers draw their images.
Types of Imagery:
Visual Imagery is the most frequently used literary imagery and helps create a mental image.
Auditory Imagery evokes corresponding sounds in our imagination.
Olfactory-smell
Gustatory-taste
Tactile-touch.
Kinetic and Kinesthetic Imagery refers to motion.
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