Precise Language and Sensory Details

What type of writing is this prompt? You have just read “Two Finalists Vie to Be ‘Master Chef Junior’” about the recollection of two young boys childhood experience competing in a kitchen cook-off. Write a story from the viewpoint of one of the young boys depicting this particular event. Draw evidence from the text to describe how the young boy responds to the event is the text compared to the other young boy. Use story-writing techniques, as well as precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey the experiences and events of the character. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in your response.

• Informational/Explanatory

• Narrative

• Argumentative

Select all that apply. Which of the following are specified as Word Craft techniques?

• Imagery

• Details

• Word Choice

• Vivid Verbs

True or false: the language is the vocabulary, precise nouns, sensory words, and vivid verbs that make the text more interesting

• True

• false

This is found in a descriptive essay that is using specific words or metaphors.

• Sensory Details

• Precise Language

• Comparisons

• Strong verbs

This is found in a descriptive essay that is using words that appeal to the senses.

• Sensory Details

• Precise Language

• Comparisons

• Strong verbs

A descriptive essay uses imagery to appeal to the five senses

• TRUE

• FALSE

the use of exact nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc., to help produce vivid mental pictures without resorting to using too many words to convey thoughts

• • Relevant descriptive details

• • Sensory language

• Narrative

• Precise words and phrases

the words used to create images that trigger the reader's senses - these include sight, sound, smell, and taste

• • Exposition

• • Sensory language

• Narrative

• Composition

Which of the following sentences uses precise language?

• The dog ran quickly across the yard.

• The large, brown dog sprinted across the grassy yard.

• The dog moved fast.

• The dog was running.

What is the purpose of using sensory details in writing?

• To confuse the reader

• To create vivid images in the reader's mind

• To make the text longer

• To use more adjectives