Imagery and usage

descriptive words that appeal to the five senses
Ex. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."

• adjectives
• sensory words
• imagery
• verbs

What do you imagine when you read this description: The perfect summer day when your just outside

doing stuff like sports

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

• Visual

• Olfactory

• Kinesthetic

• Tactile

Which sentence has stronger sensory details?

• I really love looking for seashells on the beach.

• My favorite part about visiting the beach is jumping into the refreshing water and searching for shiny seashell treasures.

Which sensory detail is used in the sentence?

The slivered moon sat in the sky like an old fingernail clipping.

• Sight

• Sound

• Smell

• Touch

• Taste

Is this sentence a symbol or imagery?

The putrid rise of garbage stench filled the air?

• Symbol

• Imagery

What type of imagery is used here: patches of green in the dry field?

• visual

• kinesthetic

• auditory

• tactile

Like a river down the gutter roars.

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  Visual Imagery

• Tactile Imagery

• Gustatory Imagery

• Auditory Imagery

The rain dripped slowly down my sopping wet hair and my clothes stuck to me like clue as I stood outside the entrance of the school waiting for my mom to pick me up.

This is an example of what type of imagery?

• tactile

• auditory

• visual

• olfactoy

Which sentence has stronger sensory details?

• I ate a big piece of cake.

• I ate a scrumptious piece of chocolate cake that was the size of a mountain and tasted like a dream.