Sensory Details, Dialogue, and Perspective

What is dialogue?

• What the speaker sees, hears, smells, touches, or taste.

• Words that are being said out loud in the story.

• How the speaker thinks or feels.

What is perspective?

• What the speaker sees, hears, smells, touches, or taste.

• Words that are being said out loud in the story.

• How the speaker thinks or feels.

What are sensory details?

• What the speaker sees, hears, smells, touches, or taste.

• Words that are being said out loud in the story.

• How the speaker thinks or feels.

Which of these is a sensory detail?

• She drank the lemonade.

• "Do you want lemonade?" she asked.

• Her tongue tingled as she sipped the glass of tart, sugary lemonade.

• She hated lemonade because it made her mouth tingle.

Which of these is a perspective?

• She drank the lemonade.

• "Do you want lemonade?" she asked.

• Her tongue tingled as she sipped the glass of tart, sugary lemonade.

• She hated lemonade because it made her mouth tingle.

Which of these is a dialogue?

• She drank the lemonade.

• "Do you want lemonade?" she asked.

• She hated lemonade because it made her mouth tingle.

• She hated lemonade because it made her mouth tingle.

Which of these is an example of a sensory detail?

• "Was the ice cream too cold?" she asked.

• The ice cream was cold.

• I love strawberry ice cream, but in the middle of winter it gives me brainfreeze.

• The pink, strawberry ice cream was so cold that I felt the stabbing pain of brain-freeze hit my skull.

Which of these is an example of a dialogue?

• "Was the ice cream too cold?" she asked.

• The ice cream was cold.

• I love strawberry ice cream, but in the middle of winter it gives me brainfreeze.

• The pink, strawberry ice cream was so cold that I felt the stabbing pain of brain-freeze hit my skull.

Which of these is an example of a perspective?

• "Was the ice cream too cold?" she asked.

• The ice cream was cold.

• I love strawberry ice cream, but in the middle of winter it gives me brainfreeze.

• The pink, strawberry ice cream was so cold that I felt the stabbing pain of brain-freeze hit my skull.

Punctuate the dialogue correctly by adding quotation marks.