When you’re reading or listening to verbal material ( e.g. fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry, lyrics, etc.), what kind of imagery has the most impact?

Imagery in the broad sense (including all senses, not just sight).

“Kind” can be whatever categorisation you can think of, e.g. genre, sense, place, scale, human/non-human, etc.

  • naught101@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    Wow, interesting. I can tolerate a bit of gore reading (I think I just zone out on the worst of it). I don’t enjoy it in film at all.

    I generally avoid horror films. There’s one that has stuck with me horribly, and I wish I’d never seen it (The Ruins). Didn’t enjoy some parts of Annihilation either.

    Possible I’ve just never read any really bad scenes though…

    • roofuskit@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I don’t really enjoy the “gore porn” sub-genre that lots of horror has devolved into. But have seen a lot of the worst ones due to their cultural significance.