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=﻿The Use of Imagery in Modern Literature= 

**Quotes on Imagery**
=="There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery." == [|**Stefan Kanfer**] "I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around." [|**Ann Beattie**]

**Imagery (Brief Overview)**
Authors use striking imagery to set the stage for a performance that is their work of art.  Imagery uses visual display of words and sometimes pictures to engage the other senses in the mind of the reader. It is not uncommon to feel like you can hear the dialogue in a story including any accent, lisp, or other affectation. Additionally, a well described scene can cause you to feel as though you can hear the actual song of a bird or smell the freshly baked apple pie straight from the oven.

Imagery Defined **(Collected from Dictionary.com)**
Imagery is the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively. It also includes pictorial images and the use of rhetorical images. Often times imagery is a figurative description or illustration, or a collection of rhetorical images. In Psychology imagery pertains to mental images collectively, especially those produced by the action of imagination. Analogy Metaphor Visualization
 * Synonyms of Imagery**

Symbolic Imagery in Literature (Links between Symbolism and Imagery)
[|How to Understand Symbolism in Literature] 1. Grasp the meaning of "symbol." 2. Recognize the signs. 3. Familiarize yourself with the author's work and style. 4. Trust your feelings. 5. Look to others.

Specific Examples
//Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi//




 * [|Why Marjane Satrapi Wrote Persepolis]**

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//Howl// by Allen Ginsberg "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix" [|Allen Ginsberg's Howl] media type="youtube" key="UqCPfr5OiOE?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

//Push// by Sapphire "Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make up words. Them words everything." — [|Sapphire] ( [|Push] )

This short quotation from the book shows imagery because it makes you imagine that she is really talking to her baby.

A is fr Afrc (for Africa) B is for u bae (you baby) C is cl w bk (colored we black) D is for dog E is el l/m (evil like mama) F is for Fuck G is Jerm but Jer j ( Jermaine but Jermaine J)  ok G is gunn H hm (home) I I somb (somebody) J Jer (Jermaine) k kl (kill) l lv (love) M frknka rl m (Farrakban real man) N nf kkk (North America America= KKK) O op (open) P ph (punks) Q qee litee (Queen Latifah) R srt (respect) S stp (stop) T 2 tn (two ton) V vt (vote) W wll (well) X ma m ml (main man Malcolm) Z zk (zonked, mean like high) -Sapphire

This section from //Push// shows how Sapphire relies on imagery in her writing. When Sapphire includes the way Precious tried to spell the words it shows her character. It shows you how badly Precious couldn't spell and it shows you what images she thinks about a lot. By putting in the teachers writing you can now see the images that Precious was trying to display. Without the teachers interpretation the list would make no sense and would not give you a good sense of imagery. This list also makes you imagine what Precious was thinking about when she wrote it and also where she encountered these things before in her life. This passage shows great imagery and without imagery the passage would not be as useful.

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