Sensory language and Imagery

1. What is "sensory language"?

• Sensory language integrates the five senses to create an emotional connection between the reader and the text.

• language that is not very descriptive

• language that has been censored (censorship)

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is Imagery?

• A snapchat photo you post

• The use of language appealing to one or more of the five senses

• A funny joke

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

1. Which of the five senses are used in sensory writing?

• No right answer

• Sight, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling

• Sight, hearing, feeling, tasting

• Hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What type of connection is established through the use of sensory writing?

• Emotional connection

• Writing connection

• Literary connection

• There are no connections made. Sensory writing is used to give the reader a first person point of view experience that is driven by description only.

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CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Which of the following statements is true of imagery?

• It is always visual

• It often uses figurative language

• It can only be understood if explained by the writer

• It can only appeal to one sense at a time

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which one of the five senses is used in this sentence?

The warm juicy burger was like heaven on my tongue.

• Sight

• Tough

• Sound

• Taste

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Choose the two sentences that contain similes.

• He bit into the juicy apple

• His breath was minty fresh when we spoke.

• He was singing like an injured cat

• His eyes were as blue as the ocean

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• I was as angry as a raging bull

• Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get

• Charli Damelio is the best tiktoker

• Her eyes were diamonds in the sky

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following sets of words deal mostly with the sense of SOUND?

• quiet, jangling, barking

• moist, glassy, metallic

• earthy, fruity, minty

• salty, sweet, tangy

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

It was too dark to see in the cave, but I tasted the tang of salt on my lips. I must be near the ocean! Excited, I moved toward the salty spray.

What sense did the writer describe?

• Sight

• Sound

• Taste

• Touch

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4