imagery

What is the best definition of imagery? 

• 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.
  
• An act of saying what will or might happen in the future.
•  A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.
• Exaggeration

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This sentence appeals to which sense:

The familiar tang of his grandmother’s cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth.

• taste
• sound
• sight
• smell

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This sentence appeals to which sense:

The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward.

• sound
• sight
• smell
• touch

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This sentence appeals to which sense:

The sunset was the most gorgeous they’d ever seen; the clouds were edged with pink and gold.

• sight
• smell
• touch
• taste

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This sentence appeals to which sense:

After eating the curry, his breath reeked of garlic.

• smell
• touch
• taste
• sound

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This sentence appeals to which sense:

The tree bark was rough against her skin.

• touch
• taste
• sound
• sight

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This sentence appeals to which sense:
The dog's fur was as soft as a feather. 

• touch
• taste
• sound
• sight

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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..

• sight
• smell
• touch
• taste

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This excerpt appeals to which sense:

She went back to eating earth. The first time she did it almost out of curiosity, sure that the bad taste would be the best cure for the temptation.

• taste
• sight
• sound
• smell

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Which of the following lines from Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” contains imagery?

• The woods are lovely, dark and deep
•  But I have promises to keep
• And miles to go before I sleep
• All of the above

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