Elements of a Short Story

This type deals with full-body sensations such as those experienced during exercise.

This type uses the five basic tastes as well as textures and sensations tied to eating.

This type exploits literary devices like onomatopoeia and alliteration in building sounds.

Type of sensory imagery that includes color, size, shape, lightness and darkness, shadows and shade. It mainly uses the sense of sight.

This type uses simile to describe the smell of things.

This type includes textures and sensations human beings experiences when touching something.

The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape.

Silence was broken by the peal of piano keys as Shannon began practicing her concerto.

After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning muscles. The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow.

She smelled the scent of sweet hibiscus wafting through the air, its tropical smell a reminder that she was on vacation in a beautiful place.