Entertainment / Literature / Imagery: A common term of variable meaning, imagery includes the 'mental pictures' that readers experience with a passage of literature. It signifies all the sensory perceptions referred to in a poem, whether by literal description, allusion, simile, or metaphor. Imagery is not limited to visual imagery, it also includes auditory (sound), tactile (touch), thermal (heat and cold), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), and kinesthetic sensation (movement). Cf. Imagism, below.
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Imagery Noun Synonyms: figurativeness, allusion, symbolism
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Entertainment / Literature / Tactile Imagery: Verbal description that evokes the sense of touch. See imagery. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Miltonic Imagery: Imagery made famous by Milton's poetry--especially Paradise Lost. Examples include the dark angels or twisted demons laboring at Pandemonium's construction deep below the earth in fiery shadow, especi MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Visual Imagery: Imagery that invokes colors, shapes, or things that can be seen. See discussion under imagery. MORE