Creative Nonfiction Quarter 1 Week 1 Day 3 - Imagery
Creative Nonfiction Quarter 1 Week 1 Day 3 - Imagery
A. The loud bang from the next room woke me up in the middle of the night.
B. I stood up to try to look for it in pitch-black, slowly approaching my window.
C. I screamed from the top of my lungs when I felt something sharp poked left toe.
D. The smell of the unpleasant scent of gunpowder in the air, making my heart throbbed even more
intense.
E. I perspired so hard that my sweat slowly dripping into my face leaving me no choice but to have it on
my lips tasting the saltiness of my fear.
Process Questions:
1. What is the sentences all about?
2. Were you able to imagine the events stated in the statements? How?
3. Underline the words that describe. What senses do they appeal to?
4. What are those senses called?
D. Presentation
They are common types of imagery. What is imagery?
Imagery is the use of figurative language to create visual representations of actions, objects and ideas in our
mind in such a way that they appeal to our physical senses.
E. Discussion
Here are the five most common types of imagery used in creative writing:
Observe the excerpt from Peter Redgrove’s Lazarus and the Sea. Each line contains imagery. Take note of the
words that are associated with the types of imagery.
The tide of my death came whispering like this (Auditory)
Soiling my body with its tireless voice. (Auditory)
I scented the antique moistures when they sharpened (Olfactory, Tactile, Visual)
The air of my room, made the rough wood of my bed, (Visual)
Standing out like roots in my tall grave. (Visual)
F. Application:
Activity 2: Use My Senses
Read the following sentences and identify the type of imagery used in each. The underlined words will help you
identify them easily.
Again, the types of imagery are Auditory, Visual, Tactile, Olfactory and Gustatory.
1. As she stepped out of the office building, she thought the bright, beaming sunlight would blind her.
Immediately, she began rummaging through her purse for her Tom Ford shades.
2. His phone signaled, immediately setting his teeth on edge. He looked at the cracked screen, saw her
name, and slapped the phone back down on his desk.
3. They silently inhale
the clover-scented gale,
And the vapors that arise
From the well-watered and smoking soil
Rain in Summer, H.W. Longfellow
4. When glided in Porphyria; straight
She shut the cold out and the storm,
And kneeled and made the cheerless grate
Blaze up, and all the cottage warm
Porphyria’s Lover, Robert Browning (1836)
5. The crimson liquid spilled from the neck of the white dove, staining and matting its pure, white
feathers.
6. "Gio's socks, still soaked with sweat from Tuesday's P.E. class, filled the classroom with an aroma akin to
that of salty, week-old, rotting fish."
7. "I was awakened by the strong smell of a freshly brewed coffee."
8. "....Which has its sounds, familiar, like the roar of trees and crack of branches, common things, But
nothing so like beating on a box" (From 'An Old Mans Winter Night' by Robert Frost)
Activity 3:
List down five words that correspond to each type of imagery. Use them in sentence.
Example:
1. From "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
A. Olfactory C. Visual
A. Tactile D. Gustatory
V. ASSIGNMENT