sensory images
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Taste Touch Sight Sound Smell
The tang of a cold glass lemonade
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A cold breeze
A bright sun
The chirp of bird
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Freshly
mowed
grass
SENSORY
IMAGES
6 SENSORY IMAGES
6 SENSORY IMAGES1. Sight- visual - appeals to the sense of seeing
2. Sound- auditory - appeals to the sense of hearing
6 SENSORY IMAGES3. Smell- olfactory - which appeals to the sense of smelling
4. Touch- tactile - which appeals to the sense of feeling
6 SENSORY IMAGES5. Taste- gustatory - which appeals to the sense
of taste
6. Motion - which appeals to the sense
of seeing except that the line contains another dimension- movement
Image- mental picture created in the mind of the reader as he/she assimilates the language of the author
Imagery- method of writing by which the author uses ordinary words to create an image
EXERCISESWrite the predominant sensory image found in each of the following.
1. flickering fireflies2. the squeak of spinning wheels3. chocolate, ice cream, and apple pie4. the piercing rays of the noon day sun5. a host of golden daffodils6. splashing silver seas7. the baby’s breath was warm on my
face8. apple blossoms filled the air
9. the lambent tolling of the bells10. gentle swaying of the bamboo11. full blast of moonlight12. candlelight flickering 13. smoke which stung her eyes14. the birds chirping15. rain pouring down from the tin roof
QUIZ NO. 3Write the predominant sensory image
found in each of the following.1. a grain of sand in the eye2. smoke curling up lazily from the
chimney3. green mangoes with bagoong4. a tree in bloom so near my room5. slow crunch of footsteps on dry soil6. broiled chicken, roasts a-roasting7. the murmuring of the bees, the waves
lapping the shore
8. scorching rays of the noon day sun9. ants crawling down the anthill10. the tang of salt spray from the sea11. pebbles cold and sharp under my feet12. sparkling icicles and flaming torches
of leaves13. acrid fumes of burning wax14. the hurrying tide15. silky and velvety as a baby’s skin