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Chapter 4: Imagery
• Imagery: the representation through language of sense experience.
1. visual imagery
2. auditory imagery: sound
3. olfactory imagery: smell
4. gustatory imagery: taste
5. tactile imagery: touch, hot, cold
6. organic imagery: internal sensation (hunger, thirst)
7. kinesthetic imagery: movement
• The sharpness and vividness of any image will ordinarily depend on how
specific it is, and on the poet’s use of effective detail.
• Must convey emotion, suggest and idea, as well as to cause a mental
reproduction of sensation.
Chapter 8 – Allusion
• Allusion: A reference to something in history or previous literature. A means
of reinforcing the emotion or ideas or one’s own work with emotion or ideas
of another work or occasion. Allusions vary in the number or readers to
whom they will be familiar.
• What is the danger of using allusions:
1. Beginning readers may miss allusions altogether.
2. The author may be misunderstood.