Author’s
Note: This is a reflection on my descriptive piece, Fun in the Sun.
In my descriptive essay, Fun in the Sun,
I used imagery. There are many ways that
using this particle of writing helped my piece.
Basically it’s specifically used to create a picture in the minds of your
readers. If I hadn’t used imagery the
people who comprehend it wouldn’t be able to picture my memory like I could. I believe that every writer, whether
professional or not, should make an effort to have their readers see what they
do through imagery.
One form of imagery I used was tone. In the following sentence; A moan of relief simultaneously escaped our mouths as our
feet felt the cool sand underneath the satisfying lukewarm water, I created a tone of
relieve. This tone is written in the sentence, but if I had taken out, of relief, the tone could
still be pin-pointed.
I also attempted to add senses, which is
another form of imagery. In this sentence;
As the conversation ended I waddled
upstairs still wrapped in a blanket and breathed in the air that smelt of wood
one last time. I added a sense of
smell. Senses are an even easier fragment
of writing, but only if you they are used correctly. If you know mostly everyone has either: seen,
heard, smelt, tasted, or felt the sense you added, the sense then fits under
the category of imagery.
The
two examples of imagery that I reflected on were just a small fraction of the
imagery, I used in my descriptive essay.
If you are going to use imagery in a piece you need to make certain that
you are using it from start to finish.
One piece that is based off of tones and senses is descriptive and it’s definitely
not as difficult as you may think because, I’m not anywhere near the best at
writing, but I do believe that my readers saw a picture that perfectly matched
mine.
