Imagery

Definition: words that connect to the five senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.

Visual- sight
Auditory- sound
Gustatory- taste
Tactile- touch
Olfactory-smell

Example:

Excerpt from "Preludes" by T.S. Eliot

The winter evening settles down

With smell of steaks in passageways.

Six o'clock.

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

And now a gusty shower wraps

The grimy scraps

Of withered leaves about your feet

And newspapers from vacant lots;

The showers beat

On broken blinds and chimney-pots,

And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.

Significance: Imagery draws the reader into the story and plot. It paints pictures in your mind. Imagery makes writing more realistic for the reader and also more enjoyable.