This is a medical website, and it focuses mostly on how guided imagery can help with certain medical conditions and relieve stress or anxiety. It doesn't relate to literature, but it does give the essential idea of what imagery is. I don't think this is really a source for an English class but it is reliable information.

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This source is credible because it is supported by Oxford University Press. It improved my knowledge because it discussed how simile and methapor are good ques to see if an author is creating imagery.

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. A set of mental pictures or images.
2.
a. The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
b. The use of expressive or evocative images in art, literature, or music.
c. A group or body of related images, as in a painting or poem.

Several useful definitions for this resource. Great and credible. This better helps me understand how to define imagery best.

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Encyclopedia Britannica is a credible source, and trusted by MCC’s library. This makes it a trustworthy source. I’m not familiar with imagery in Islamic art, so the article sounded like a helpful source to read. I thought it would be an insightful angle, especially when applied to my other imagery sources, because of the comparison and contrast of the two cultures' literature.

The article isn’t very informative because it takes a historical, rather than a literary, lean. It discusses the use of imagery, among other literary terms, in the romantic poet-prose of certain authors. These pieces led to what we see today as the typical characteristics of Indian poetry. I guess this article helped me to place into perspective the significance of imagery. Essentially, imagery is important to literature across the world.

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I think this is a great resource for poetry in general. It gives numerous definitions and descriptions of other terms and elements associated with poetry other than just imagery. I really liked its description of imagery. It listed the different ‘types’ of imagery and explained each of them individually. It really helped me get a better grasp on the subject as a whole.

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3. "Literary Terms." Owl Online Writing Lab. 1995. Purdue. 9 June 2007 <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_litterms.html>.

The purpose of this website is to define literary terms. According to this website, the definition of imagery is, “the collection of images within a literary work. Used to evoke atmosphere, mood, tension. For example, images of crowded, steaming sidewalks flanking streets choked with lines of shimmering, smoking cars suggests oppressive heat and all the psychological tensions that go with it.” I like how this site gave an example of imagery where as other sites I have visited did not. This website is very helpful in understanding literary terms and is also credible.

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I didn't like this site at all... I couldn't find the definition for the term. The site wasn't directed toward "imagery" at all.

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I thought it was interesting that this resource gives the definition in terms of psychology. I also liked that it had the thesarus section on the same page.

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I liked this resource not only for its clear definition of imagery, but also because it defined some main literary terminology such as literary devices, elements, and terms. The posting did an excellent job of showing imagery working in a text, a poem by Emily Dickinson.

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8:I think that this posting is an absolutely wonderful resource. It provides a great deal of information on what imagery is, how important it is and even provides examples and tips to improve imagery. This source is very useful in fully understanding imagery as a reader and an author. I think it definitely provides a full understanding of imagery that is easy to learn from.

10: I found this resource a little bit useful in defining the term, but there is not a lot of information outside of that. The resource is good, just very brief and basic.

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