Sensory Details and Figurative Language Quiz

What are sensory details?

• Details that appeal to one or more of the five senses

• Language that is not meant to be taken literally

• A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

• A type of figurative language

Which of the following is an example of figurative language?

• We saw orange flames shooting from the windows

• Soft hot ashes landed on us

• He strolls through the crowd as if in a dream

• We could taste and smell the acrid smoke

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as, or as if

• A type of sensory detail

• A metaphor without using like or as

• A literal description

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison of two seemingly unlike things without using like, as, or as if

• A comparison using like or as

• A literal description

• A type of sensory detail

Which sense is primarily appealed to in the sentence: "I lay in my sickbed, surrounded by the strong piney aroma of camphor"?

• Sight

• Sound

• Touch

• Smell

Which sense is primarily appealed to in the sentence: "Li and JJ enjoy the delicious sweetness of the Italian ices at the little beach stand"?

• Sight

• Sound

• Taste

• Smell

Which sense is primarily appealed to in the sentence: "In the great quietness of those summer days, our only clock was the ocean’s waves beating rhythmically on the shore"?

• Sight

• Sound

• Touch

• Smell

Which sense is primarily appealed to in the sentence: "In a flash, my mind’s eye showed me an abandoned town with dusty lonely streets"?

• Sight

• Sound

• Touch

• Smell

Which sense is primarily appealed to in the sentence: "Holding the soggy shredded papers in her hands, Leah boils with anger at Rex"?

• Sight

• Sound

• Touch

• Smell

What type of figurative language is used in the sentence: "Becca is a tigress, protecting the ball as she guides it swiftly to the goal"?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Sensory detail

• Literal language