Imagery and Sensory Language

Which sentence from lines 6-15 helps you understand how Helen Keller was feeling?

• The afternoon penetrated the afternoon sun
• "Light, Give me Light,...was the wordless cry of my soul
• Anger and bitterness had preyed upon me continually for weeks
• I was glad I crushed the doll

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Which sensory detail does this statement appeal to?   
My fingers lingered on the familiar leaves....

• sight
• touch
• taste
• smell

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which Sensory detail does this statement appeal to?
The afternoon sun penetrated my upturned face....

• taste 
• feel
• smell
• sound

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is Imagery?

• the use of language appealing to one or more of the five senses
• a joke
• It's nothing, you just made it up
• a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Is this an example of imagery?
"They ate food."

• Yes
• No
• No clue

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Do we use our 5 senses in imagery: smell, taste, touch, sight, hearing?

• Yes
• No
• I don't know
• maybe

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Is this Imagery: The wind blew silently

• Yes
• No

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Is this Imagery: I saw the stars in the sky

• Yes
• No

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What type of imagery is this?
The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house

• Sight
• Sound
• Touch 
• Taste

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4