Imagery

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Imagery

• How to analyse an image

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The Method

• Say what is being compared to what
• Say what they have in common
• Say what that adds to the description of the
  thing that is being described.
• LEARN THIS!

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What is being compared to what?
What do they have in common?
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Teaching is being compared to banging your head
off a brick wall.
Pointless, fruitless, painful and frustrating.
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Analyse this
The shark swam by me like a bored fridge.
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Analyse This The traders at my stall were like
vultures round a carcase.
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The last EASY imagery example

• I recently saw a picture of myself aged ten, with
  a body like a pipe-cleaner.

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The Method- Reminder

• Say what is being compared to what
• Say what they have in common
• Say what that adds to the description of the
  thing that is being described.
• Now to take things to Higher level, you have to
  be able to transfer this method to far more
  complicated examples.

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Imagery Example

• Girl power of the type proclaimed by the Spice
  Girls, with its rhetoric of choice, control and
  empowerment, most certainly caused some kind of
  quake among pre- to early teen girls in the
  latter half of the nineties, but it is difficult
  to gauge its real impact, since contemporary
  media trend watchers are always too happy to
  construct a fanfare around a small ripple.

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Analysis

• Girl power of the type proclaimed by the Spice
  Girls, with its rhetoric of choice, control and
  empowerment, most certainly caused some kind of
  quake among pre- to early teen girls in the
  latter half of the nineties, but it is difficult
  to gauge its real impact, since contemporary
  media trend watchers are always too happy to
  construct a fanfare around a small ripple.

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Say what is being compared to what

• The effect Girl Power had is being compared to an
  earthquake.

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Say what they have in common

• An earthquake changes the landscape. It unsettles
  people. It is powerful. It has an epicentre and
  its effect can be felt for miles around as the
  vibrations spread.

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Say what that adds to the description of the
thing that is being described.
From this comparison, we can see that Girl Power
affected in a permanent and irreversible way what
young girls felt about choice, control and
empowerment. The idea was new, therefore
groundbreaking. The writer is unclear as to the
extent of the change, as she feels the media try
to exaggerate everything they can.
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Imagery Example

• The real stranglehold on our food culture, comes
  not only from the behemoth fast-food brands, but
  from the big supermarkets.

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Analysis

• The real stranglehold on our food culture, comes
  not only from the behemoth fast-food brands, but
  from the big supermarkets.

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Say what is being compared to what

• The effect of grocery corporations and chain
  restaurants is being compared to a
  stranglehold.

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What do they have in common?

• In both cases, one is in complete control of
  another, and has the power to put an end to them.

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Say what that adds to the description of the
thing that is being described.
The food conglomerates have complete power,
strength and influence in our food culture. They
can make us do, or eat , anything they want.
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A beast of an image
The real stranglehold on our food culture, comes
not only from the behemoth fast-food brands, but
from the big supermarkets.
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I could go on.

• But I wont. The deadline for finishing this
  powerpoint was like a dam in the river of my
  productivity.
• Never mind.