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Unit 5: Major Literary Terms-V

Imagination is the work of the mind that helps develop. Imagination helps provide meaning to Notes
experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make
sense of the world, and it also plays a key role in the learning process. A basic training for imagination
is listening to storytelling (narrative), in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental
factor to “evoke worlds.”
It is accepted as the innate ability and process of inventing partial or complete personal realms
within the mind from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world. The term is
technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind, percepts of objects formerly
given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some
psychologists have preferred to describe this process as “imaging” or “imagery” or to speak of it as
“reproductive” as opposed to “productive” or “constructive” imagination. Imagined images are
seen with the “mind’s eye.”

Imagination can also be expressed through stories such as fairy tales or fantasies. Most
famous inventions or entertainment products were developed from the inspiration of
someone’s imagination.
“Imagination is an effort of the mind to develop a discourse that had previously been known, a
development of a concept of what is already there by the help of our reason, to develop a results of
new thinking.” The common use of the term is for the process of forming new images in the mind
that have not been previously experienced with the help of what is ever been seen, hear, or feel
before, or at least only partially or in different combinations. Some typical examples follow:
• Fairy tale
• Fiction
Imagination is an experimental partition of the mind used to develop theories and ideas based on
functions. Taking objects from real perceptions, the imagination uses complex IF-functions to develop
new or revised ideas. This part of the mind is vital to developing better and easier ways to accomplish
old and new tasks. These experimental ideas can be safely conducted inside a virtual world and
then, if the idea is probable and the function is true, the idea can be actualized in reality.

Imagination is the key to new development of the mind and can be shared with
others, progressing collectively.

Regarding the volunteer effort, imagination can be classified as:
• Voluntary (the dream from the sleep, the daydream).
• Involuntary (the reproductive imagination, the creative imagination, the dream of perspective).

5.6 Dramatic Monologue

M. H. Abrams notes the following three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry:
1. A single person, who is patently not the poet, utters the speech that makes up the whole
of the poem, in a specific situation at a critical moment.
2. This person addresses and interacts with one or more other people; but we know of the
auditors’ presence, and what they say and do, only from clues in the discourse of the
single speaker.

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