Sensory and Figurative Language

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.

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

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

• Yes
• No
• I don't know
• maybe

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

• sight
• touch
• taste
• smell

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

• Yes
• No
• No clue

Is this Imagery: The wind blew silently

• Yes
• No

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

• Sight
• Sound
• Touch 
• Taste

Which one of the five senses is used in this sentence?
The wolf howled painfully over the loss of his mate.

• Sight
• Sound
• Touch 
• Taste

What is sensory language?

• Language that writer's use to appeal to our senses 
• Bob the Brussel Sprout
• Language that authors use to "unlock" certain memories
• The New Star Wars movie 

Which of the five senses is used in this sentence?
The warm juicy burger felt like heaven on my tongue.

• Taste
• Touch
• Sight
• Sound