Imagery

What is the best definition of 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

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This sentence appeals to which sense:

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

• taste

• sound

• sight

• smell

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This sentence appeals to which sense:

The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward.

• sound

• sight

• smell

• touch

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This sentence 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

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This sentence appeals to which sense:

After eating the curry, his breath reeked of garlic.

• smell

• touch

• taste

• sound

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This sentence appeals to which sense:

The tree bark was rough against her skin.

• touch

• taste

• sound

• sight

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This excerpt 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

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This excerpt 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.

• taste

• sight

• sound

• smell

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How does imagery help us understand the story?

• It doesn't

• By expressing how the author is feeling

• Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see

• By telling the mood

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The drumbeats sounded like distant thunder.
What type of figurative language is used?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

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