Words / B2

IM-ij-uh-ree/ˈɪmɪdʒəri/

Imagery is language that creates pictures (usually uncountable): vivid imagery; war imagery. Image is a single picture or public impression (already in the dictionary). Comment on the imagery in stanza two. Do not write “an imagery”. Mix-up: imagination is the faculty of inventing.

Meaning

Descriptive language that creates pictures in the mind (usually uncountable).

Examples

• “Comment on the imagery in stanza two, not just the plot.”
• “Religious imagery runs through the speech, which is the rhetoric sense.”

Good to know

vivid / religious / visual imagery. Uncountable. Single picture: image. Literature papers. Not imagination.

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