According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, imagery is "a set of mental pictures or images."


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Well, how does a writer create these mental pictures or images?

By using words that appeal to the five senses!

 

A good writer uses words that makes a reader mentally...

 

see,...

sight.JPG (77913 bytes)

 

hear,...

sound.JPG (12248 bytes)

 

touch,...

touch.JPG (12543 bytes)

 

smell,...

smell.JPG (76379 bytes)

 

and taste...

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...as the person reads.

 

back.gif (2314 bytes) Click here if you need to go back Let's see the effect of good imagery in communicating a message with a mental picture...