Imagery

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How does imagery help us understand the story?

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Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters experience or describe

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This refers to the writer’s use of vivid and descriptive language that appeal to the senses in order to add depth to his/her work.

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Imagery

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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.

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auditory imagery

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This imagery addresses our sense of smell. The author describes the object using the sense of smell. Options: olfactory imagery, gustatory imagery, auditory imagery, visual image.

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olfactory imagery

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This type of imagery is used to address our taste buds, allowing the writer to make us taste the food described in the story. Options: visual imagery, olfactory imagery, gustatory imagery, auditory imagery.

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gustatory imagery

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This type of imagery addresses our sense of touch or that which we can feel with our skin.

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tactile imagery

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The eerie silence was shattered by her scream. The underlined word is an example of _____________.

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auditory imagery

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Imagery

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Imagery is the author’s use of language that appeals to the five senses in order to help the reader imagine what is being described.

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This excerpt appeals to which sense:

Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue..
Options: sight, smell, touch, taste

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sight

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Does the sentence "The temperature was a blistering 90 degrees and the hot sun burned my sensitive skin instantly." appeal to the sense of sight?

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False