Sensory Imagery

                     SENSORY IMAGERY What Is Sensory Imagery?    Sensory imagery involves the use of descriptive language to create mental images . In literary terms, sensory imagery is a type of imagery, the difference is that sensory imagery works by engaging a reader's five senses. Any description of sensory experience in writing can be considered sensory imagery. What Is the Purpose of Sensory Imagery in Writing? Most writing contains some level of imagery. One reason fiction writers deal in significant concrete detail is to permit the reader the pleasure of arriving at their own judgments and conclusions through perceptual clues. However, writers don't have to always. resort to describing the way things look to create mental images. Describing how something tastes, smells, sounds, or feels-not just how it looks-makes a passage or scene come alive. Using a combination of imagery and sensory imagery arms the reader with...