English Literature / Unit 2 ENL 0106 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Imagery and Patterns of Imagery
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The idea
Imagery is sensory language that calls up pictures, sounds, smells or textures in the reader's mind, and it can carry tone, mood and symbol. A pattern of imagery is a set of related images repeated through a work, building meaning by accumulation.
In practice
Sense words, and the ones that recur.
Where people slip
The pattern matters more than any single image.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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