Description-imagery-similes

When you write a description, what are the reasons for using sensory details?

• This helps bring your narrative to life, gives your reader a clear picture of what is going on.

• This helps make my narrative boring.

• This helps to tell how things look, feel, taste,smell and sound.

• This also helps your reader read the narrative backwards

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Which one of the five senses is used in this sentence? The wolf howled painfully over the loss of his mate.

• Sight
• Sound
• Touch 
• Taste

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Which of the five senses is used in this sentence? The warm juicy burger felt like heaven on my tongue.

• Taste
• Touch
• Sight
• Sound

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Imagery is language that creates a picture.

• True
• False

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The tiny red ant climbed up the broken limb.  Which sense is being described?

• Sight
• Sound
• Smell
• Hear

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What type of imagery is this?
The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house

• Sight
• Sound
• Touch 
• Taste

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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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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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A phrase that describes by comparing using "like" or "as"

• noun
• verb
• simile

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Scooby Doo was so scared he was shaking like a ____________?

• Leaf

• Hose

• Door

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