Imagery

Descriptive language that creates a sensory impression, such as something seen, heard or felt.

Sensory imagery: the ‘jolting black waggons’ combine movement and colour, making the machinery seem physically imposing beside the woman.

Language that evokes sensory impressions or creates pictures and associations through comparisons.

Descriptive language that helps a reader imagine a sensory experience, such as a sight, sound, smell, taste or touch.

Analysing language explains how the writer’s particular words, phrases, imagery and sentence forms create that meaning and influence the reader.

Language that creates a vivid mental impression, often through sensory details or figurative comparisons.

Language that creates a vivid impression in the reader’s mind, including sensory description and comparisons such as similes and metaphors.

Language that creates a mental picture or evokes sensory experience.

Imagery can evoke sound, touch and movement as well as sight.

Descriptive language that creates a mental impression, often through sensory detail or comparisons such as similes and metaphors.

Descriptive or figurative language that helps readers imagine a sensation, scene or experience.

Descriptive language that creates a sensory impression, such as a picture, sound or physical sensation.

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