Concrete and Sensory Language

Concrete and Sensory Language Review

Concrete and Sensory Language

What sensory or concrete language do you observe in each quote?

What does the language help you understand about the rainforest?

"The Dreaming Tree"

"The trees offered a beautiful, protective canopy, and exotic flowers spiced the air with fragrant scents."

Multiple Choice

What concrete language did you read in the text?

"The trees offered a beautiful, protective canopy, and exotic flowers spiced the air with fragrant scents."

• "exotic flowers spiced the air"

• "beautiful, protective canopy"

• "The trees offered"

• "fragrant scents"

Multiple Choice

What sensory language did you read in the text?

"The trees offered a beautiful, protective canopy, and exotic flowers spiced the air with fragrant scents."

• "exotic flowers spiced the air with fragrant scents"

• "trees offered a beautiful, protective canopy"

• "exotic flowers"

• none of the above

​The Great Kapok Tree

"Moments before, the forest had been alive with the sounds of squawking birds and howling monkeys. Now all was quiet as the creatures watched the two men and wondered why they had come."

Multiple Choice

"Moments before, the forest had been alive with the sounds of squawking birds and howling monkeys."

This quote includes what type of language details?

• Sensory language
• Emotional language
• Abstract language
• Metaphorical language

The Most Beautiful Roof in the World

"Meg's voice spins out into the night. The words dissolves into the thick, humid air of the forest."

Open Ended

How do these quotes help you better understand the rainforest?