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Language that gives your brain a movie instead of a memo.
means Descriptive language that creates vivid sensory pictures in the mind, rather than just stating facts.
from From Latin 'imago' meaning 'image' or 'likeness' — the same root that gives us 'image' and 'imagine.' It traveled through French 'imagerie' before settling into English, originally referring to actual visual images or statues before writers borrowed it for the pictures words can paint.
- not decoration
- it is the meaning, dressed as a picture
- five senses
- good imagery works beyond just sight
- brain trick
- reading rich imagery activates real sensory cortex
- overdose risk
- too much turns prose into purple wallpaper