Descriptive Imagery

Mother is trying to cook in the kitchen but the children are being very noisy. Which of the following is involved?

• Hearing

• Touch

• Sight

• Taste

Appeals to the sense of sight through the description of color, light, size, pattern, etc.

• Visual

• Olfactory

• Kinesthetic

• Tactile

Appeals to the sense of sight through the description of color, light, size, pattern, etc.

• Visual

• Olfactory

• Kinesthetic

• Tactile

When writers use ______, they are describing something by focusing on the aspects that the reader could feel, or touch.

• Kinesthetic

• Organic

• Tactile

• Gustatory

Is a form of mental imagery that is used to organize and analyze sounds when there is no external auditory stimulus present.

• Kinesthetic

• Auditory

• Organic

• Olfactory

Appeals to a reader’s sense of motion or movement through describing the sensations of moving or the movements of an object.

• Organic

• Auditory

• Kinesthetic

• Gustatory

This sentence appeal to which sense?

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

• Taste

• Sound

• Touch

• Smell

"The sky was wide and very blue."

The imagery use in the sentence is?

• Olfactory

• Kinesthetic

• Tactile

• Visual

Identify the imagery type used in the following sentence.

She smelled the scent of sweet hibiscus wafting through the air, its tropical smell a reminder that she was on vacation in a beautiful place.

• Auditory

• Tactile

• Visual

• Olfactory

• Gustatory

The form of imagery employed in the following sentence?

As the chili touched my tongue, I thought a fire had been lit in my mouth.

• Gustatory

• Olfactory

• Auditory

• Tactile

• Visual