imagery quiz

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

Is this imagery?
They ate food

• Yes
• No
• No clue

Temperatures, such as bitter cold, humidity, mildness, and stifling heat are words that appeal to _______ sense.

• visual

• tactile

• olfactory

• auditory

Fragrances, such as perfumes, enticing food and drink, and blooming flowers are words that ______ sense.

• gustatory

• olfactory

• tactile

• visual

Patterns, such as: polka-dotted, striped, zig-zagged, jagged, and straight best appeal to _______ imagery.

• auditory

• visual

• olfactory

• tactile

The lack of noise, describing a peaceful calm or eerie silence appeal to ____sense.

• visual

• tactile

• olfactory

• auditory

Read the text below.

"In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribbling, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, Popsicle, partially gnawed ice cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops."

-Charlotte's Web

The predominant sensory imagery employed in this paragraph is _________________________________.

Read the text below.

"Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars."

-William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet

The predominant sensory imagery employed in this paragraph is _________________________________.

What is the imagery used in the line below?

With the clattering sound of pain, his world shattered into pieces when he heard his father’s death.

• Auditory Imagery

• Gustatory Imagery

• Olfactory Imagery

• Visual Imagery

What imagery is used in this line?

Her blue eyes were as bright as the sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk.

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