Imagery

Descriptive or figurative language that creates a sensory impression.

Language that creates pictures or sensory impressions, often through metaphor, simile or personification.

Religious imagery was familiar in contemporary love poetry, and here it gives their attraction a language of reverence. Juliet understands and develops his imagery rather than merely receiving his praise. Their ability to complete the same poetic pattern suggests mutual attraction and intellectual compatibility.

Descriptive or figurative language that creates a mental picture or sensory impression.

Connect context to a specific detail: remembrance practices illuminate the poppy and memorial; Weir's design background illuminates the textile imagery.

In an extract answer, examine changes within the passage: a shift in rhythm, imagery, speaker or tone can be more revealing than a list of devices.

Language that creates an impression of a sensory experience, such as a sight, sound or physical sensation.

Descriptive or figurative language that creates a sensory impression or represents an idea through an image.

Clothing imagery repeatedly represents titles and social roles. Macbeth calls his new title “borrow'd robes” in Act 1 Scene 3. By Act 5 Scene 2, Angus describes his kingship as hanging “like a giant's robe / Upon a dwarfish thief.”

Descriptive or figurative language which creates a sensory impression or connects an idea with a recurring set of images.

Descriptive or figurative language that evokes sensory impressions or connects an idea with a concrete image.

Language that evokes sensory experience, including sights, sounds, smells, tastes or touch.

Language that evokes sensory experience, such as a sight, sound or touch.

Descriptive language that creates sensory impressions, including figurative comparisons such as similes and metaphors.

Imagery creates sensory impressions, often through figurative comparisons. Syal’s descriptions frequently tell us two things at once: what someone looks like and how Meena feels about them.

Language that evokes sensory experiences, such as sights, sounds or physical sensations.

Language that creates an impression of something seen, heard, felt, tasted or smelt.

Language that creates a sensory impression or mental picture.

Language that evokes sensory experiences or creates pictures in the audience's imagination.

Descriptive or figurative language that creates an impression of something seen, heard, felt or otherwise sensed.

Language includes imagery, wordplay and the particular words characters choose. These methods work together: a beautifully balanced love poem can appear inside a tragedy whose ending the audience already knows.

Language that creates an imaginative impression through sensory description or comparisons such as metaphor and simile.

Descriptive language that evokes sensory experiences, such as sights, sounds or physical sensations.

Descriptive or figurative language that creates a sensory impression or helps readers imagine an experience.

Descriptive or figurative language that creates a sensory impression or helps a reader imagine an experience.

Definition

How each exam board covers it

AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702

Exam tips

Get more free notes every week

Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0

OCR GCSE English Literature · J352

Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720