English Grade 9 - M9 L3

This refers to the writer’s use of vivid and descriptive language that appeal to the senses in order to add depth to his/her work.

• Description

• Imagery

• Senses

• Symbols

What is the best primary objective of the writer in using imagery in writing?

• Encourage the reader to keep on reading

• Encourage the reader to start writing

• Help the reader experience a connection to the story/poem.

• none of the above

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

• auditory

• visual

• olfactory

• tactile

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

• gustatory

• olfactory

• tactile

• visual

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

• visual

• tactile

• olfactory

• auditory

Temperatures, such as bitter cold, humidity, mildness, and stifling heat are words that 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.

"A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance."

-"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth

The predominant sensory imagery employed in this paragraph is _________________________________.