Imagery Review

What is the best definition of sensory imagery?

• Imagery is the author’s use of language that appeals to the five senses in order to help the reader imagine what is being described.

• An act of saying what will or might happen in the future.

• A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.

• Exaggeration

This sentence below appeals to which sense?

The familiar tang of his grandmother’s cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth.

• taste

• sound

• sight

• smell

This sentence below appeals to which sense?

The sunset was the most gorgeous they’d ever seen; the clouds were edged with pink and gold.

• sight

• smell

• touch

• taste

This sentence below appeals to which sense?

Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue..

• sight

• smell

• touch

• taste

This sentence below appeals to which sense?

She went back to eating earth. The first time she did it almost out of curiosity, sure that the bad taste would be the best cure for the temptation. But the crumbly texture and tang her spoonful of dirt was a temptation she could not resist.

• taste

• sight

• sound

• smell

Which of the following lines from Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” contains imagery?

• The woods are lovely, dark and deep
•  But I have promises to keep
• And miles to go before I sleep
• All of the above

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

The eerie silence was shattered by her scream.

• See

• Hear

• Smell

• Taste

• Touch

Which sentence best appeals to the reader's sense of sight.

• It was late in the day when they departed.

• They marched into the woods that surrounded their underground home."

• Long shadows stretched over the entrance to the ant kingdom.

• One by one, the insects climbed out.

These are examples of which sense?
bright, dark, shiny, dull, colorful

• sound
• sight
• taste
• touch

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.3D

These are examples of which sense?
Soft, squishy, rough, smooth

• taste
• sight
• sound
• touch

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CCSS.W.6.3D