CW MODULE 1 Imagery

Direction: Take a very careful look at the picture below.
Write a
brief description of the place. You may incorporate an
experience related to the location to make your literary
description more vivid.
• Establishing a clear connection with the readers is
of the important objectives that any literary work
must be able to fulfill. In literature, sensory
experience makes use of imagery to enliven the
five human senses (Ramos & Dalisay, 2017).
IMAGERY
Imagery as a general term covers
the use of language to represent
objects, actions, feelings, thoughts,
ideas, states of mind and any
sensory experience. It is a
figurative language used to appeal
to the senses through vivid
descriptive language. Imagery
creates mental pictures in the
reader as they read the text.
• Sense of sight:
‘’I imagined your deep love walk towards me.’’
(In the use of the word imagined, someone can
imagine seeing someone walking towards him or
her)
• Sense of hearing (sound):
‘’Your footsteps fell heavy on the hardwood floor.’’
(The use of the phrase fell heavy indicates how the

footsteps can be distinctively heard)
• Sense of smell:
‘’Your smell had greeted me before you did.’’

(One imagines the smell of perfume)
• Sense of touch:
‘’We got caught in a tight embrace.’’
(The warmth of embrace is imagined in the word
tight)
• Sense of taste:
‘’I tasted sweet love. ‘’

(Gives an implied feeling of the sweet taste of love)
Example:
An excerpt from Peter Redgrove’s Lazarus and the Sea
contains imagery:
The tide of my death came whispering like this

Soiling my body with its tireless voice.
I scented the antique moistures when they sharpened
The air of my room, made the rough wood of my bed,
(most dear), Standing out like roots in my tall grave.
Example:
"The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it
smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses
and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a
sort of peaceful smell as though nothing bad could happen ever
again in the world. It smelled of grain and of harness dressing and
of axle grease and of rubber boots and of new rope. And
whenever the cat was given a fish head to eat, the barn would smell of
fish. But mostly it smelled of hay, for there was always hay in the
great loft up overhead. And there was always hay being pitched down
to the cows and the horses and the sheep.“
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
1. Imagery is used to signify all the objects and
qualities of sense perception referred to in works
of literature.
2. Diction refers to the kinds of words, phrases,
and sentence structures, and sometimes also
figurative language, that constitute any work of
literature.
3. Figure of speech is an expression that departs
from the accepted literal sense or from the
normal order of words, or in which an emphasis is
produced by patterns of sound.
Activity #5
Improve the following statements by enhancing imagery. Take note of the
suggested sensory feelings inside the parentheses.
1. It was early in the morning. The birds fly freely (sense of sight).
2. Jollibee opens its doors (sense of smell).
3. The young girl was relishing salad (sense of taste).
4. The bees flock to the bunch of flowers (sense of sound).
5. The breeze was kissing my cheeks (sense of touch).
Bring out the music in me!
Directions: Select one song below which piqued your interest.
Using your smartphone or computer, listen to the song in any video
or music streaming website you prefer. After listening, read and
accomplish what is described below.
“Imagine” “Photograph” “The Scientist” “Fast Car”
by John Lennon by Ed Sheeran by Coldplay by Tracy Chapman
“Rainbow” “In the End” “You Belong With Me” “Out of My League”
by Southborder by Linkin Park by Taylor Swift by Stephen Speaks
Write about a memory triggered by the music you have
chosen. Think of where you are when you last heard the music
and what it meant for you. Include any images that come into
mind. Be sure to make your paragraph interesting by using
different figures of speech. Write your essay on a whole sheet of
paper.
Rubric:
•Content- 5
•Creativity- 10
Total- 15 pts.

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Direction: Take a very careful look at the picture below.

(The use of the phrase fell heavy indicates how the

‘’Your smell had greeted me before you did.’’

‘’I tasted sweet love. ‘’

The tide of my death came whispering like this

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