Look up: imagery

1. Imagery
   the employment of images in a given passage of a literary work, a whole work or a group of works.
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2. Imagery
   The ability to perceive images in the mind. These may be visual, auditory, tactile, etc.
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3. Imagery
   The ability to perceive images in the mind. These may be visual, auditory, tactile, etc.
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4. Imagery
   The creation of images using words. Poets usually achieve this by invoking comparisons by means of metaphor or simile or other figures of speech. In his famous line from sonnet 18 Shakespeare creates an image by comparing his love to a 'summer's day'.
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5. Imagery
   The non-conceptual memory of past visual and/or auditory scenes. Presumably, therefore, some sort of partly reactivated perceptual memory, with associations to both episodic memory (for the context within which the scene was originally experienced) and propositional memory (for the interpretation pl
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6. Imagery
   figurative or descriptive language which builds a mental picture of a person, place or idea.
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7. Imagery
   use of language to create a vivid sensory image - often visual. May include: vocabulary choice of synonym, for example sprinted/ran/raced, selection of adjectives and adverbs simile he ran like the wind metaphor his feet had wings see figurative language
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8. Imagery
   Imagery: Both a mental process (as in imagining) and a wide variety of procedures used in therapy to encourage changes in attitudes, behavior, or physiological reactions. As a mental process, it is often defined as 'any thought representing a sensory quality.' It includes, as well as the visual, all...
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9. imagery
   the products of image forming instruments Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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10. Imagery
    Im'age·ry (ĭm'aj*rȳ; 277) noun [ Middle English imagerie , French imagerie .] 1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. 'Painted imager...
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11. imagery
    <psychology> A cognitive-behavioural strategy that uses mental images produced by the imagination as a form of psychotherapy as an aid to relaxation. ... It can be classified by the modality of its content: visual, verbal, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, or kinesthetic. ... Common the...
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12. Imagery
    • (n.) The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. • (n.) Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse. • (n.) The wo...
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13. imagery
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14. imagery
    imagery 1. The ability to form mental images of things or events. 2. The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively. 3. Pictorial images. 4. The use of rhetorical images. 5. Figurative descriptions or illustrations; rhetorical images collectively...
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15. imagery
    Type: Term Pronunciation: im′ăj-rē Definitions: 1. A technique in behavior therapy in which the client or patient is conditioned to substitute pleasant fantasies to counter the unpleasant feelings associated with anxiety.
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16. imagery
    By using images a writer appeals to the reader´s senses and his imagination and gives him a new perspective on something. Imagery is a term that means the use of comparisons, similes, metaphors, personifications and symbols alike.
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17. Imagery
    A technique in which the patients forms mental images of posiitve things or events, in hopes of achieving a state of calmness and relaxation. Imagery is used during labor as a means of relaxation, stress reduction and natural pain relief.
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18. imagery
    Use of metaphor, simile, and other figures of speech to create a visual picture to stimulate the imagination and the senses, often helping the reader to experience a situation more vividly; this includes the use of symbols and picture-words, and descriptive language, such as the use of adjectives and adverbs. The aim is to clarify or explai...
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19. imagery
    A technique in which the person focuses on positive images in his or her mind.
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20. Imagery
    (literature) `Imagery` is used in literature to refer to descriptive language that evokes emotional responses. It is useful as it allows an author to add depth and understanding to his work, like a sculptor adding layer and layer to his statue, building it up into a beautiful work of art. For...
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21. Imagery
    `Imagery`, in a literary text, is the use of details and descriptors, such as adjectives and nouns, used to create a mental or sensational image in the mind of a reader. The elements in a literary work used to evoke mental images, not only of the visual sense, but also of sensation (touch, taste, sm...
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