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IMAGERY

What emotions come to mind when you look at the picture?

What do you see that creates this emotion? Give TWO details to support your claim.

Warm-Up: ImageryFriday, November 18, 2011

Warm-Up: ImageryFriday, November 18, 2011

What emotions come to mind when you look at the picture?

What do you see that creates this emotion? Give TWO details to support your claim.

Warm-Up: ImageryFriday, November 18, 2011

What emotions come to mind when you look at the picture?

What do you see that creates this emotion? Give TWO details to support your claim.

IMAGERYLANGUAGE THAT APPEALS TO THE

SENSES

SUMMER SKIN By Death Cab For Cutie

Squeaky swings and tall grass The longest shadows ever cast The water's warm and children swim And we frolicked about in our summer skin

I don't recall a single care Just greenery and humid air Then Labor day came and went And we shed what was left of our summer skin

On the night you left I came over And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders Our brand new coats so flushed and pinkAnd I knew your heart I couldn't winCause the season's change was a conduit And we'd left our love in our summer skin

What emotions are associated with

squeaky swings and tall grass?

How does that contrast with the image of peeling skin?

CAN YOU GUESS THE TOPIC OF THIS POEM?

• He seemed to know the harbor,So leisurely he swam;His fin,Like a piece of sheet-iron,Three-cornered,And with knife-edge,Stirred not a bubbleAs it movedWith its base-line on the water.

His body was tubularAnd taperedAnd smoke-blue,And as he passed the wharfHe turned,And snapped at a flat-fishThat was dead and floating.And I saw the flash of a white throat,And a double row of white teeth,And eyes of metallic grey,Hard and narrow and slit.

Then out of the harbor,With that three-cornered finShearing without a bubble the waterLithely,Leisurely,He swam—That strange fish,Tubular, tapered, smoke-blue,Part vulture, part wolf,Part neither—for his blood was cold.

What senses does the poem appeal to?

THE SHARK BY E.J. PRATT

• He seemed to know the harbor,So leisurely he swam;His fin,Like a piece of sheet-iron,Three-cornered,And with knife-edge,Stirred not a bubbleAs it movedWith its base-line on the water.

His body was tubularAnd taperedAnd smoke-blue,And as he passed the wharfHe turned,And snapped at a flat-fishThat was dead and floating.And I saw the flash of a white throat,

And a double row of white teeth,And eyes of metallic grey,Hard and narrow and slit.

Then out of the harbor,With that three-cornered finShearing without a bubble the waterLithely,Leisurely,He swam—That strange fish,Tubular, tapered, smoke-blue,Part vulture, part wolf,Part neither—for his blood was cold.

Excerpt From "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" By William Wordsworth

 I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.  For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.  

QUESTIONS:

Identify THREE examples of imagery in the poem.

What sense(s) does the author appeal to?

How does the mood shift from the first to last stanza?

How does the imagery contribute to this shift?

1. Imagery can be defined as:

A. language that appeals to the sensesB. pictures that accompany poemsC. descriptive languageD. a sound device

2. Which of the following is the most descriptive example of imagery:

A. Susan walked quickly to class.B. The bell rang in the hallway.C. The papers were haphazardly strewn across the table. D. Susan was significantly late when she finally arrived.

3. “The crack of the baseball against the bat” appeals to your sense of:

A. sightB. soundC. smellD. touch

4. The “cool breeze kissed her face and fluttered in the leaves” appeals to the sense of:

A. touch and soundB. sound and sightC. smell and touchD. sight and touch

5. Fumento primarily appeals to your sense of:

A. touchB. sightC. smellD. sound

Badlands Chasm and canyonCarved into the landEpic face of timeA space of creationAnd slow changeFormation of rockRivers cutting throughIndentationsSwelling of earthGentle, rolling slopesGaping, edged depressionOpening new worlds

- Mary O. Fumento, 2010