Sensory Imagery

Olfactory imagery

describes what we smell like fragrances or odors

Tactile imagery

describes how things feel to the touch like temperature, texture, movement

Olfactory imagery

describes what we smell like fragrances or odors

Tactile imagery

describes how things feel to the touch like temperature, texture, movement

Gustatory imagery

describes what we taste or food that we crave; flavors like sweet, spicy, sour, salty

Auditory imagery

describes what we hear like specific noises or silence

Visual imagery

describes things we see like color, pattern, size

Sensory imagery

language that appeals to the senses

Kinesthetic Imagery/Kinesthesia

he feeling of movement. Deals with full-body sensations

Elegy

talks about the loss of someone or something. Sad and melodic tune

The Ruined City

a poem that is one of the many examples of an elegiac lyric. It seems to have been part of a larger poem of an unknown date. Referred to the old city of Bath. It was written by an anonymous poet

Bath

Found in Somerset, England, plundered by the Anglo-Saxons in A.D. 577.

Idiomatic expressions

Phrases whose meanings are not deducible from the literal meanings of individual words. Often used in everyday language.

Idiom

an expression that does not mean what it literally says