Sensory imaging

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• Examples of sensory images
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The sensory images they are the resource used in poetic language, where a set of words manages to evoke a phenomenon that is perceived through the senses. For example: He breathed in the scent of freshly blooming jasmine.

Any phrase in which a sensation that the body is capable of feeling is expressed corresponds to a sensory image. However, this is the name given to the rhetorical figure that enjoys a certain beauty because it uses words of a more poetic style.

In poetry, the attention of the recipients is stimulated by means of all these figures of speech. However, the particular case of sensory images has an additional dimension, since it transmits something as intimate as the perception of the human body itself.

Sensory images seek to penetrate the senses of the reader, leading him to a situation that is perceived through smell, sight, hearing, taste or touch.

• More examples in: Poetic images

Examples of sensory images

The following list will include a series of sensory images, accompanied by the sense of the body that the expression evokes:

1. The wind beat our faces. (Touch image)
2. The taste of those lips speaks to me of cherries. (Gustatory image)
3. Full of wrinkles, yes, but that face was beautiful: the smile showed that the passage of time had left a full life. (Visual image)
4. I know that the water has no taste but with the thirst we had, it seemed very sweet and tasty there. (Gustatory image)
5. The mountain had almost no snow, but at the top you could see the white. (Visual image)
6. The lovely scent of violets was pleasant to all. (Olfactory image)
7. The gentle caresses of our mother are a treasure that we must preserve. (Touch image)
8. My neighborhood does not have tall houses, it is a postcard of a city from another time. (Visual image)
9. The noise of the horns overwhelms those who have worked in the center for years, can you imagine someone who does not know the city? (Auditory imaging)
10. A beautiful melody echoed off the walls of our neighborhood. (Auditory imaging)
11. The summer season is strawberry season, with a sweet and fresh flavor. (Gustatory image)
12. The sky turned gray, and the boys ran for the house. (Visual image)
13. The sweet taste of those watermelons made him forget the lost battle. (Gustatory image)
14. Suddenly, a sudden stop of a car. (Sound image)
15. She walked in, and her perfume left us all speechless. (Olfactory image)
16. The sound of the bandoneon let us hear sweet melodies that were confused with the wind hitting the window. (Sound image)
17. The cloudy sky showed that something bad would happen that day. (Visual image)
18. The soft skin of babies is the proof of the neatness of the human being at birth: one is never more beautiful than just one arrives at the world. (Touch image)
19. The fragrance of jasmine was mixed with the smoke from the factory. (Olfactory image)
20. The cry for "help" shook the tranquility of the afternoon in our town. (Auditory imaging)

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