Recognizing and Understanding Imagery

Which of the following are true about imagery?

• Authors/poets want you to imagine a scene, have a sensation, experience a sound or taste something.

• Images help to re-create experience vividly and add to a reader’s enjoyment of what is described.

• Authors/poets use imagery to stimulate your senses.

• A way to build pictures in the mind and stimulate the senses of the reader or listener so that they can engage and better understand what is being said.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Types of Olfactory are:

• music, noise, silence

• nice fragrances, bad odors

• colors, patterns, shapes, sizes

• texture, movement, temperature

• sour, sweet, acidic, bitter

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Types of auditory are:

• music, noise, silence

• nice fragrances, bad odors

• colors, patterns, shapes, sizes

• texture, movement, temperature

• sour, sweet, acidic, bitter

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Types of gustatory are:

• music, noise, silence

• nice fragrances, bad odors

• colors, patterns, shapes, sizes

• texture, movement, temperature

• sour, sweet, acidic, bitter

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Types of visual are:

• music, noise, silence

• nice fragrances, bad odors

• colors, patterns, shapes, sizes

• texture, movement, temperature

• sour, sweet, acidic, bitter

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Types of tactile are:

• music, noise, silence

• nice fragrances, bad odors

• colors, patterns, shapes, sizes

• texture, movement, temperature

• sour, sweet, acidic, bitter

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Which is an example of olfactory imagery?

• Her lips tasted as sweet as sugar.

• The siren turned into a whisper as it ended.

• My head is pounding like a drum.

• The autumn leaves are a blanket on the ground.

• The house smelt like frosted cake during Christmas.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which is an example of tactile imagery?

• Her lips tasted as sweet as sugar.

• The siren turned into a whisper as it ended.

• My head is pounding like a drum.

• The autumn leaves are a blanket on the ground.

• The house smelt like frosted cake during Christmas.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which is an example of gustatory imagery?

• Her lips tasted as sweet as sugar.

• The siren turned into a whisper as it ended.

• My head is pounding like a drum.

• The autumn leaves are a blanket on the ground.

• The house smelt like frosted cake during Christmas.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which is an example of auditory imagery?

• Her lips tasted as sweet as sugar.

• The siren turned into a whisper as it ended.

• My head is pounding like a drum.

• The autumn leaves are a blanket on the ground.

• The house smelt like frosted cake during Christmas.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5