Imagery and Figurative Language

At first, I thought imagery was things that you imagine and make up, but I learned that this was wrong. Actually, imagery is a type of language that appels to the five senses like taste, touch, smell, sight, & sound. I also learned about figurative language. I used to think figurative language was things you wrote and said and then you figured them out and understood them, but I learned that figurative language is a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level. The three main types of figurative language are similes, metaphors, and personification.