Here are the answers: 1. Tactile 2. Olfactory 3. Tactile 4. Tactile 5. Auditory 6. Olfactory 7. Tactile 8. Visual 9. Gustatory 10. Auditory

1. Imagery in
Poetry
By Mr. Jet Hokin Paclar

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3. The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends
upon a red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the white chickens.

4. “Image of a Father”

5.  What is the name of your father or your
Father figure?
 Write one thing found in your CR that best
describes your father’s smell.
 Complete the statement by providing the
meanest word your father told you: You
said I’m ____________.

6.  Provide a place where you had a
memorable experience with your
father.
 Describe the memorable experience
using only three words.
 If your father is a part of your body,
what part would he be?
 What do you want to tell your father?

7. Imagery
The use of figurative language to represent
objects, actions and ideas in such a way
that it appeals to our physical senses.

8. Imagery
 makes use of particular words that create
visual representation of ideas in our minds.
 It creates mental images.

9. Kinds of Imagery

10. Visual Imagery
 pertains to sight, and allows readers to
visualize events or places or people.
 Characterized most of the time by colors

11.  “It was dark and dim in the forest”
 “O, she doth teach the torches to burn
bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of
night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear;”
- “Romeo and Juliet”, William Shakespeare

12. Auditory Imagery
 pertains to a sound, and allows the
reader to hear the sound in their mind.
 Characterized most of the time
by onomatopoeia.

13.  “Buzzing of the bees and chirping of the birds.”
 “The children were screaming and shouting in the
fields.”
 “Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”
- “To the Autumn”, John Keats

14. Olfactory Imagery
 pertains to an odor or smell
 “He whiffed the aroma of brewed
coffee.”
 “The smell of dried fish, swam through my
nostrils.”

15. Gustatory Imagery
 pertains to a taste.
 “The fresh and juicy orange are very cold
and sweet.”
 “The ampalaya-like medicine was forced
into my mouth.”

16. Tactile imagery
 pertains to a texture or sensation of touch.
 Characterized by texture
 “The girl ran her hands on a soft satin
fabric.”
 “My right ear scraped a buckle”

17. “MY PAPA'S WALTZ”
Theodore Roethke
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.

18. We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.

19. The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.

20. You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by
dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.

21. Reflection Question
“If you will be given a chance
to choose, will you pick the
same father you have now?
Why or why not?

22. Identify if the statements are Visual, Auditory,
Olfactory, Gustatory or Tactile Imagery.
1. The hand that held my wrist
2. The whiskey on your breath
3. My right ear scraped a buckle.
4. The wind touches my skin
5. The buzzing of the bees
6. His breath like a skunk’s fart
7. Face as rough as a sandpaper
8. The setting of the orange sun
9. A love that’s like licking a sugar filled candy.
10. She talks like a candy cane.