Imagery - I Want My PTv!

A reader is tuned into your channel. What do you give them, boring black and white or HDTV?

There is nothing wrong with black and white but you are taken to a different dimension with HDTV. It can be the same with your poetry, with your use of imagery.

The stars in your imagery cast are, bar none, metaphor *"Invalid Item" * and simile *"Straightforward Simile" *, while your supporting actors and actresses could be one or more of the following:


· Onomatopoeia ** (Here is a direct definition from dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=Onomatopoeia)
· Allusion *"Allusion Infusion" * (Here is a direct definition from dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=allusion)
· Oxymoron – a pair or combination of words that are opposite of each other. (Ex. Military Intelligence ~ MY personal favorite, tee hee) (Here is a direct definition from dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=oxymoron)
· Personification – Taking the qualities of people and applying it to inanimate objects. (Ex. The chair cries in desolation, longing for her return…) (Here is a direct definition from dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=personification)
· Ambiguity – Purposely playing with your words to create more than one meaning. (Here is a direct definition from dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=ambiguity)
· Ambivalence – Similar to ambiguity, ambivalence is concerned with emotion, meaning that you choose your words to create the feeling of more than one emotion at once, within your poem. (Here is a direct definition from dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=ambivalence)
· Metonymy, Symbol and Synecdoche – All of these are similar in what they do. Basically you use a replacement for the real name of something. (Ex. The big apple for NYC, bean pole for a tall person, or “the twins” for the World Trade Center Complex) (METONYMY - Here is a direct definition from dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=metonymy) (SYMBOL - Here is a direct definition from dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=symbol) (SYNECDOCHE - Here is a direct definition from dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=Synecdoche)


Use of imagery can garner you more readers, possible publication AND maybe a place in the Nielson Ratings! LOL



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