Sensory Images

SENSORY IMAGES

          - Sensory Images include sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Sensory images are images created in your head from a very detailed description of something, often using one of the five senses.
          - Also it can be what you imagine in your head as you read the story. 
          - Good narratives make use of image and sound-evoking words to transport a reader into the world of the story. Beowulf's story uses descriptive language to appeal to the readers' senses. Here are some examples from the selection.

     Ex #1: It was fiiled with treasures and weapons of war; in the midst of these warlike things was a baby sleeping. (SENSE OF SIGHT)

     Ex #2: At midnight Grendel came bursting the door inwards, laughing at the thought of the feast of flesh before him. (SENSE OF HEARING)


               IMPORTANCE OF SENSORY IMAGES

          - Our senses provides us the raw material of the external world which we process as language and determine our interpretation of it.
          - A small excercise for example, think of a Cake. You surely pictured one in your mind, remembered the smell of one, even salivated a little thinking of how it may taste.
          - That’s because our language is an ever-growing compound we develop since we are very little, but our senses are working even before we develop that language and, biologically, senses have a special highway link to memory.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

LITERATURE

Image
LITERATURE is a written works such as poems, novels etc. That has a lasting importance in our world. It has an intelectual value and its also a work-of-art. Its a universal interest and it is also a written account.  Literature has three (3) parts. The first one is the POETRY, second is the PROSE and of course the third one is the DRAMA. Let us first begin in the POETRY. POETRY has also three (3) parts. The LYRIC, NARRATIVE and the DRAMATIC. The types of LYRIC are the following: BALLAD - a kind of poem or song that tells a story. The example of this is "Lord Randal My Son". SONG - a short piece of music with words that is sung. SONNET - a poem that made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern. The two (2) types of SONNET are THE SHAKESPEAREAN and the PETRARCHAN SONNET. Next is the PASTORAL. ODE - a poem which is a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect to someone or something. And the last one is ELEGY - a song or a poem that expresses a...
Read more

ballad

Image
A  ballad  is a type of poem that is sometimes set to music. Ballads have a long history and are found in many cultures. The ballad actually began as a folk song and continues today in popular music. Many love songs today can be considered ballads. A typical ballad consists of stanzas that contain a  quatrain , or four poetic lines. The  meter  or rhythm of each line is usually  iambic , which means it has one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. In ballads, there are usually eight or six syllables in a line. Like any poem, some ballads follow this form and some don't, but almost all ballads are  narrative , which means they tell a story. Because the ballad was originally set to music, some ballads have a  refrain , or a repeated chorus, just like a song does. Similarly, the rhyme scheme is often ABAB because of the musical quality of this rhyme pattern. While ballads have always been popular, it was during the...
Read more

2nd grading lessons

Image
2nd Quarter Lessons -INTRODUCTION-           Neoclassical literature  was written between 1660 and 1798. This time period is broken down into three parts: the  Restoration period , the  Augustan period , and the  Age of Johnson .          Writers of the Neoclassical period tried to imitate the style of the Romans and Greeks. Thus the combination of the terms 'neo,' which means 'new,' and 'classical,' as in the day of the Roman and Greek classics. This was also the era of The Enlightenment, which emphasized logic and reason. It was preceded by The Renaissance and followed by the Romantic era. In fact, the Neoclassical period ended in 1798 when Wordsworth published the Romantic 'Lyrical Ballads'. -JOHN MILTON- John Milton  (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet,  polemicist ,  man of letters , and civil servant for the  Commonwealth of England  unde...
Read more