This document defines imagery and describes the five main types: visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, and auditory. Visual imagery involves descriptions that appeal to sight, olfactory imagery relates to smell, gustatory imagery is about taste, tactile imagery deals with touch sensations, and auditory imagery concerns sounds. Examples are given for each type to illustrate how authors can use imagery to engage readers' senses and make descriptions more vivid. The purpose is to help students understand imagery and be able to identify and incorporate different sensory types into their own writing.

1. Types of imagery
Kristine Grace B. Obligado

2. Objectives
1. The students will be able to define Imagery.
2. The students will be able to identify the Types of Imagery.
3. The students will be able to use the Types of Imagery in a sentence.

3. The types of Imagery
1. Visual Imagery
2. Olfactory Imagery
3. Gustatory Imagery
4. Tactile Imagery
5. Auditory Imagery

4. What is IMAGERY?
- Describes objects, actions, and
ideas in a way that appeals to the
physical senses and helps readers
to picture the scene as if it were
real.
- descriptions of sounds, tastes,
physical sensations, and smells.

5. What is VISUAL
IMAGERY?
- It is the most common form of imagery
in literature. When you’re writing a
scene, whether you’re describing a
person, place, or thing, it’s best to show
instead of telling.
- It is using vivid imagery and sensory
details to make your reader see the
scene for themselves
Ex: The moonlight shone over the lake
and reflected in her big, dark eyes.
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6. What is OLFACTORY
imagery?
- Appeals to our sense of smell. When writing
a scene about food, be sure to use descriptive
words that will have your readers’ mouths
watering.
Ex: The sweet aroma of the freshly baked
chocolate chip cookies wafted from the kitchen
to the living room, causing Greg’s stomach t
rumble

7. What is GUSTATORY
IMAGERY?
- This imagery describes taste. It often
works hand in hand with olfactory
imagery (what’s taste without smell
after all?) and should appeal to
reader’s taste buds.
Ex: As he bit into the juicy burger, a variety
of spices danced upon his tongue.

8. What is TACTILE
IMAGERY?
- It appeals to our sense of touch. A good
tactile imagery helps readers to feel that
they are part of the scene and makes the
characters’ experiences more relatable.
Ex: A gust of cold wind pierced her body

9. What is AUDITORY
IMAGERY?
- It describes sounds, Even the subtlest of
sounds can help set the scene and place
readers right in the middle of the
action.
Ex: She awoke to the chirping of birds and
the soft whisper of a breeze as it passed
through the tree outside her window

10. THE END
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