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Textual details and evidence

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are descriptive words that evoke one of the five senses (sight, smell, touch, sound, and taste)?

(a)  

2.
What type of imagery is this?
The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house
a)
Sight
b)
Sound
c)
Touch 
d)
Taste
3.

I dipped my hand in the sparkling night-lit water, cupping the warm water in my hand and throwing it at my cousin Alexi.

a)

Sight

b)

Sound

c)

Taste

d)

Touch

4.
Provides the reader with details related to the senses.
a)
Sensory Language
b)
Stanzas
c)
Symbol
d)
Forms
5.

Small projections located on the tongue’s surface where taste buds are located are known as:

a)

papillae

b)

gustatory cells

c)

olfactory epithelium

d)

mucous producing glands

6.

This imagery addresses our sense of hearing. To create a complete mental picture in the minds of the reader about the incident in the story, the writer incorporates a description of the sounds too.

a)

visual imagery

b)

auditory imagery

c)

olfactory imagery

d)

tactile imagery

7.

Which of the words below are sensory words of sound?

a)

splash

b)

boom

c)

tasty

d)

silky

e)

gliterring

8.

The sensory details in a story are details that ________.

a)

use the five senses

b)

use dollars and cents

c)

use just sights and smells

d)

use big words

9.

The car (a)   every time I hit a bump in the road. (Sense: Sound)


Word Bank:

Jumped

Squeaked

Flew

Stopped

10.

Which sense is predominantly evoked through the imagery in the poem?

a)

Hearing

b)

Taste

c)

Smell

d)

Sight

11.

It was too dark to see in the cave, but I tasted the tang of salt on my lips. I must be near the ocean! Excited, I moved toward the salty spray. What sense did the writer describe?

a)

smell

b)

sound

c)

taste

d)

sight

12.

How does imagery help us understand the poetry?

a)

It doesn't

b)

By expressing how the author is feeling

c)

Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel through words

d)

By telling the mood

13.

As soon as I opened the fridge, I knew that something was rotten.

a)

see

b)

hear

c)

taste/smell

d)

touch

14.
Which one of the five senses is used in this sentence? The wolf howled painfully over the loss of his mate.
a)
Sight
b)
Sound
c)
Touch 
d)
Taste
15.

Sensory language is...

a)

language that appeals to the five senses.

b)

poetry

c)

logos, ethos, and pathos.

d)

language that is correctly formatted

16.

True or False: Imagery is a fancy way of saying language

a)

False

b)

True

17.

What do you imagine when you read this description: Rows of candy and the rows are made of piles of

candy. Each type of candy has a different pile but

there are no dividers some of the piles have different

colors of candy but they are still the same kind of

candy.

a)
b)
c)
d)
18.

The air was rotten and it was coming from the trash can. Which sense does this sentence appeal to?

a)

touch

b)

taste

c)

sound

d)

smell

19.

Sensory words improve a stories quality

a)

True

b)

False

20.

What sentence describes SIGHT.

a)

The meteoroids were bits of dust and rocks from a comet's trail.

b)

Last summer, Dan went camping with his cousins in the wilderness.

c)

They stayed up late to watch the bright streaks of shooting stars crossing the sky.