Senses in Poems

The video tutorial explores how poetry often includes rhyming words and descriptive language that appeals to the five senses: taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight. It provides examples from Edward Lear's 'Nonsense Alphabet' to illustrate how poets use sensory language to create vivid imagery. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of sensory words in helping readers visualize and experience the scenes described in poems. It concludes with a recap of the five senses and encourages viewers to identify sensory language in other poems and texts.

Which of the following is NOT one of the five senses used in poetry to create vivid imagery?

• Sight

• Taste

• Balance

• Smell

In the poem 'Nonsense Alphabet', what sense is primarily engaged by the description of the duck?

• Touch

• Sight

• Taste

• Smell

What color is the gooseberry described in the poem 'Nonsense Alphabet'?

• Yellow

• Green

• Blue

• Red

Which sense is engaged by the description of the lily in the poem?

• Hearing

• Smell

• Balance

• Taste

What words in the poem describe how the upper coat feels?

• Cold and wet

• Woolly and warm

• Smooth and shiny

• Rough and tough