Imagery is the verbal expression of sensory experience' descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures; imagery is created by details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
Imagery is noticed in If You Come Softly. The words that the author uses create images in your mind about how it happens, kind of like a movie. For Example, dialogue can affect the way you see it : "Other players drifted in noisily. There were a couple of other girls scattered around the gym. We all knew that the minute the coach walked in, we'd all be kicked out. I crossed one ankle over the other and stared down at my loafers." That passage can be found on page 150. Another example of imagery is "And in another moment he felt his breath catch deep in his throat. He felt a slow burn of something-something hot and hard against his side. And then he was falling, grabbing for the ball but falling, falling and losing control" That passage can be found on page 171.
Discussion Questions
1. What are some other examples of imagery that you can picture in your mind?
2. Do you think the author saw this in her mind? (Use example from above)
If You Come Softly Poem
. If you come as softly
As the wind within the trees
You may hear what I hear
See what sorrow sees.
If you come as lightly
As threading dew
I will take you gladly
Nor ask more of you.
You may sit beside me
Silent as a breath
Only those who stay dead
Shall remember death.
And if you come I will be silent
Nor speak harsh words to you.
I will not ask you why now.
Or how, or what you do.
We shall sit here, softly
Beneath two different years
And the rich between us
Shall drink our tears.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Imagery By: Gabby
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