DIDLS - Imagery

DIDLS

Imagery

Imagery

using words that appeal to the five senses

(many writers use details and figurative language to create imagery)

Open Ended

What are the five senses?

The five senses

• Visual - sight

• Tactile - touch

• Auditory - hear

• Gustatory - taste
  

• Olfactory - smell

Questions to ask when analyzing imagery

• Does any sense/reference dominate?

• How do the images impact the reader/listener?
  

• Can you draw the image?

• What details in the image seem important?
  

• What does the image focus on or what does it leave out?

Once More to the Lake E.B. White

“When the others went swimming my son said he was going in, too. He pulled his dripping trunks from the line where they had hung all through the shower and wrung them out. Languidly, and with no thought of going in, I watched him, his hard little body, skinny and bare, saw him wince slightly as he pulled up around his vitals the small, soggy, icy garment. As he buckled the swollen belt, suddenly my groin felt the chill of death.”

Multiple Select

What sense does this passage appeal to?

• Tactile

• Auditory

• Olfactory

• Visual

• Gustatory

Once More to the Lake E.B. White

“When the others went swimming my son said he was going in, too. He pulled his dripping trunks from the line where they had hung all through the shower and wrung them out. Languidly, and with no thought of going in, I watched him, his hard little body, skinny and bare, saw him wince slightly as he pulled up around his vitals the small, soggy, icy garment. As he buckled the swollen belt, suddenly my groin felt the chill of death.”

Practice

Multiple Choice

1.She could not get the metallic taste of fear out of her mouth.

• Visual

• Tactile

• Olfactory

• Gustatory

• Audial

Multiple Choice

2.Another cobweb stuck to her cold, clammy skin.

• Visual

• Tactile

• Olfactory

• Gustatory

• Audial

Multiple Choice

3.Flashes of lightning illuminated the ink-black sky.

• Visual

• Tactile

• Olfactory

• Gustatory

• Audial

Multiple Choice

4.There was an ominous scratching at the door.

• Visual

• Tactile

• Olfactory

• Gustatory

• Audial

Multiple Choice

5.The foul smell of dead mice hung in the air.

• Visual

• Tactile

• Olfactory

• Gustatory

• Audial