Types of Imagery Name

Date

Imagery:

There are different kinds of imagery.

1. Visual Imagery:

Examples:

• “Magnified apples appear and disappear … every fleck of russet showing clear.”

• “The clouds were low and hairy … like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.”

• “The iced branches shed ‘crystal shells.’”

Your turn:

2. Auditory Imagery:

Examples:

• “The rumbling … of load on load of apples coming in.”

• “The miniature thunder … the clatter of stone.”

• “The roar of trees, the crack of branches, beating on a box.”

Your turn:

3. Olfactory Imagery:

Examples:

• “Musk from hidden grapevine springs.”

• “The sticks of wood ‘sweet scented stuff’”

• “To a Young Wretch – the boy takes the tree and heads home, ‘smelling green.’”

Your turn:

4. Gustatory Imagery:

Examples:

• “The blueberries as big as your thumb … with the flavor of soot.”

• “The walking boots that taste of Atlantic and Pacific salt.”

• “A haying machine passes over a bird nest without ‘tasting flesh.’”

Your turn:

Complete the notes and practices below.

5. Tactile Imagery:

Examples:

• “So love will take between the hands and face.”

• “The bed linens might just as well be ice and clothes snow.”

• “You grasp the bark by a rugged pleat, and look up small from the forest’s feet.”

Your turn:

6. Organic Imagery:

Examples:

• “My heart owns a doubt; it costs no inward struggle not to go.”

• “It’s when I’m weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood.”

• “Trees drinking up the pools and along with it, the flowers.”

Your turn:

7. Kinesthetic Imagery:

Examples:

• “I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.”

• “Leaves go up in a coil and hissed, blindly struck at my knee and missed.”

• “The black bats tumble and dart.”

Your turn:

You Try It!

Focus on the painting and write a short story about it, trying to include as many of the seven different

types of imagery as you can.