Imagery and Sensory Details Define IMAGERY in your

Imagery and Sensory Details

• Define IMAGERY in your own words.

What is Imagery? Imagery is the use of vivid descriptions to create pictures inside the reader’s mind.

What are Sensory Details? • Descriptive words that appeal to the 5 senses to create “word pictures” in the reader's mind. • Sensory details are an important part of imagery!

What are the five senses? • Hearing • Sight • Touch • Taste • Smell

What kind of examples of sensory details are these? • The birds sang sweetly. • The tinkling of broken glass. • She shrieked with joy.

What kind of examples of sensory details are these? • He reminded her of her grandfather, a scent of peppermint and tobacco. • Sam was awakened by the smoky, sweet scent of bacon coming from the kitchen.

What kind of examples of sensory details are these? • The red, gold, and green autumn leaves glistened in the sunlight. • The students at Jennings High School lit up the halls with their bright red and white school colors!

Your Turn to Practice: Rewrite the following sentences to include imagery. 1) The pizza was delicious. 2) It was raining outside today. 3) The fans enjoyed the game. 4) I ate the nachos. 5) The students clapped after the speech. 6) These are my very old tennis shoes.

What kind of examples of sensory details are these? • The sour leftover impression of vomit • As salty as a potato chip • Thick, not-too-sweet chocolate, with a hint of orange • The bitterness of getting her mouth washed out with soap

What kind of examples of sensory details are these? • She caressed the cool, smooth cover of the laptop. • The lotion gave her baby-soft skin. • It was as soft as rabbit’s fur. • The biscuit was as hard as a rock.

Imagery in Sold • “I heard the tinkling of her bell and looked up and saw my little speckled goat wandering around the school yard, bleating in despair. ” (p. 6)

Imagery in Sold • “Uncle Husband says to stay close as we get off the train. Outside, the air is warm and heavy, thick with the smoke of a hundred cooking fires. The sky is so choked with dust that the light from the electric suns on poles disappears in the haze. All around us, people shuffle along, heads down, eyes empty, as dust churns at their feet. ” (p. 88)

Imagery in Sold • “She has the reedthin body of a girl and the hollow cheeks of an old woman. She is, under the folds of her yellow dress, frail as a baby bird. ” (p. 92)

Group Reading -15 points • For you to earn your 15 points today, you must read. If you do not read, the most you can earn is 10 points. • We are reading pages 111 -122.