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# imagery

noun (imagery — uncountable)

«imagery» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Imagery is the use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind, using descriptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and feelings, often through similes and metaphors. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#m1)
2. Imagery is also pictures or images, such as satellite imagery or the images in a film or painting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#m2)

### In the lessons

In English lessons, pupils look for imagery in poems and stories and explain its effect: «The sun was a golden coin» is imagery. In geography and science, satellite imagery shows the Earth from space. Common phrases: «vivid imagery», «use imagery», «satellite imagery», «powerful imagery», «religious imagery».

### Examples

- The poem uses imagery of the sea and storms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x1)
- Find two examples of imagery in the first paragraph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x2)
- The writer's vivid imagery made me feel I was in the forest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x3)
- Satellite imagery showed the size of the bushfire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x4)
- Church windows are full of religious imagery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x5)
- Similes and metaphors are kinds of imagery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x6)
- The film's imagery was dark and frightening. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/#x7)

### Note

Uncountable: «a lot of imagery», not «imageries». Say IM-ij-ree. Related: «image», «imagine», «imagination». In tests, when asked about imagery, name the picture it creates and how it makes you feel.

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means carved or fancy pictures, perhaps beautiful sculpted things on ships, that people were proud of.

**Interpretation.** Isaiah warns that God will bring low everything people are proud of. Tradition reads this as a warning against pride in wealth and trade.

### Examples

- And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery. (Prophets ISA.2.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/imagery/#x1)

### Note

Uncountable: «a lot of imagery», not «imageries». Say IM-ij-ree. Related: «image», «imagine», «imagination». In tests, when asked about imagery, name the picture it creates and how it makes you feel.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «imagery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagery/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«imagery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/imagery.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «imagery» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/imagery/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«imagery» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/imagery.html) on Mova free.