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# imagery

«imagery» in Mova's school dictionary: **the use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (imagery — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Imagery is the use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind, using descriptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and feelings, often through similes and metaphors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#m1)

2) Imagery is also pictures or images, such as satellite imagery or the images in a film or painting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons, pupils look for imagery in poems and stories and explain its effect: «The sun was a golden coin» is imagery. In geography and science, satellite imagery shows the Earth from space. Common phrases: «vivid imagery», «use imagery», «satellite imagery», «powerful imagery», «religious imagery».

### examples

- The poem uses imagery of the sea and storms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x1)
- Find two examples of imagery in the first paragraph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x2)
- The writer's vivid imagery made me feel I was in the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x3)
- Satellite imagery showed the size of the bushfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x4)
- Church windows are full of religious imagery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x5)
- Similes and metaphors are kinds of imagery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x6)
- The film's imagery was dark and frightening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: «a lot of imagery», not «imageries». Say IM-ij-ree. Related: «image», «imagine», «imagination». In tests, when asked about imagery, name the picture it creates and how it makes you feel.

### In the corpora

- [A song stuck in your head is called an earworm; scientists call it involuntary musical imagery, and most people get them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/5/)
- [Poems paint pictures with words, called imagery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/3/)
- [Imagery means pictures made with words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/19/)
- [Free verse is poetry without regular rhyme; poems use line breaks, imagery and rhythm, not only rhyme.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/24/)
- [And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.48/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «imagery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.