Imagery. Using Sensory Detail. What is Imagery?. Imagery is when an author uses words and phrases to describe a place, person, or event in such a manner that the reader feels as if he or she is experiencing the place, person, or event first hand. What is Imagery?.
Using Sensory Detail
SMELL: The fragrant roses drifted through the room like elusive ghosts.
SOUND: Although they could not see outside the cabin, they could hear the eerie tapping, tapping, tapping, of his knife upon their door.
TASTE: The cheesecake’s exquisite flavor traveled from his tongue to his spine.
The icy breeze gently brushed against the hair on her neck, and goose-bumps shortly followed.
Tree branches glisten white
Pillows of snow
tiny crystals of light
frozen in stillness.