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.
Descriptive Imagery

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English
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11th - 12th Grade
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Hard
Margaret Anderson
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10 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Description
Imagery
Senses
Symbols
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Temperatures, such as bitter cold, humidity, mildness, and stifling heat are words that appeal to _______ sense.
visual
tactile
olfactory
auditory
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Fragrances, such as perfumes, enticing food and drink, and blooming flowers are words that ______ sense.
gustatory
olfactory
tactile
visual
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Patterns, such as: polka-dotted, striped, zig-zagged, jagged, and straight best appeal to _______ imagery.
auditory
visual
olfactory
tactile
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The lack of noise, describing a peaceful calm or eerie silence appeal to ____sense.
visual
tactile
olfactory
auditory
6.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Read the text below.
"A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance."
-"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
The predominant sensory imagery employed in this paragraph is _________________________________.
7.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Read the text below.
"In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribbling, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, Popsicle, partially gnawed ice cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops."
-Charlotte's Web
The predominant sensory imagery employed in this paragraph is _________________________________.
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