Imagery
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[edit] Uses
Imagery is used in literature to refer to descriptive language that evokes sensory experience. Such images can be created by using figures of speech such as similes, metaphors, personification, and assonance. Imagery can also involve the use of relatable action words or onomatopoeias that trigger images in the reader’s mind.[1] {{unreferenced|date=March 200
[edit] Other uses
The term imagery is also used in psychology and everyday discourse to refer to mental images, i.e., the making (or re-creation) of any experience in the mind — auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, taste, kinesthetic, equilibrioception. This is a cognitive process employed by most, if not all, humans.
[edit] Forms of imagery
Imagery can be in many forms such as metaphors, similes and puns.
A Simile is a literary device where the writer employs the words "like" or "as" to compare to different ideas.
A Metaphor is similar to a simile, however this literary device makes a comparison without the use of "like" or "as".
Guided imagery is a psychotherapeutic technique in which a facilitator uses descriptive language intended not to psychologically beneficial mental imagery, often involving several or all sense modes, in the mind of the listener.
