Imagery in (title of novel you chose)_______________________________________________________ Example of Imagery in What do the words Why did the author How do these words text mean? use these words? affect the reader? "In a cell on the ground The room is dark and To make the reader The reader can floor, the light shifts dark sparsely furnished. It is a understand that the room understand the shapes into a small stool, frightening, is not just a plain, dark helplessness, discomfort, a scrawny table, and a uncomfortable place. room, but actually a worry, and fear of the bed made of wooden prison cell, a place meant boy who is huddled on boards with no mattress to punish those who are the bed. or blankets." (p. 80) held there.
Imagery in (title of novel you chose)_______________________________________________________ Example of Imagery in text What do the words mean? Why did the author use these words? How do these words affect the reader? "In a cell on the ground floor, the light shifts dark shapes into a small stool, a scrawny table, and a bed made of wooden boards with no mattress or blankets." (p. 80) The room is dark and sparsely furnished. It is a frightening, uncomfortable place. To make the reader understand that the room is not just a plain, dark room, but actually a prison cell, a place meant to punish those who are held there. The reader can understand the helplessness, discomfort, worry, and fear of the boy who is huddled on the bed.