Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Imagery
What it’s Not!
• Imagery does not mean ‘descriptive
writing’ eg
Down on the level, its pink walls, and
straggling roses, and green-painted rain
barrel hidden by a thick dusty planting of
spruce and larch, was Fin-me-oot Cottage,
where house martins flocked to nest in
summer, and small birds found plenteous
food on the bird tables. . .
What Imagery Is
Technically it is mainly concerned
with three ‘figures of speech’
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
1. Simile
Signified by the use of like or as…as.
For example:
• The messenger ran like the wind
• The poppies were as red as blood