Imagery and Figurative Language

At first I thought imagery was a different way to look at something but I learned that I was wrong. Actually, imagery is language that appeals to the five senses. I also learned about figurative language. I thought figurative language was writing that was supposed to be taken on a serious level 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 in a literal sense. The three main types of figurative language are similes, metaphors and personifications.