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Sensory Language
Learning Objective:Can I identify what sensory language is and understand how it is used in
poetry to engage readers?
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Examples:▫The scissors was blue like the sea.
Which example is more descriptive?
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Examples:▫The scissors sounded
like the soundtrack to a horror movie as they cut through thin air and it felt like my fingers had been handcuffed for a crime they didn’t commit.
Which example is more descriptive?
Starter
Poetry is most like a…
1) Song2) Puzzle
3) Painting
Choose one and explain why in your books
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What is Sensory Language?
Language that uses words from the five senses
Sight
Sound
Smell
Taste
Touch
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Turn and talk to your partner. Write down 3 reasons why you think poets use sensory language in their poems.
Sensory Language in poetry
Pair talk
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•You are about to see a series of images;
•For each image you see, you must write two sentences to describe what you see using at least 2 senses – get creative!
Sensory LanguagePractise task
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AF1 – write imaginative, interesting and thoughtful texts
Writing using the senses means adding imagination and detail to your
writing.
Smell: musty, damp, stuffy, sweet, sickly, spicy, perfumed.
Sight: colour, (hot or cool, clashing, bright, neon, dark, light, pale) shape, zoom in on interesting details, e.g. fingerprints in dust, eyeliner smudged as if she’d been crying, hands shaking
Touch: sticky, smooth, rough, soft, hard, silky, fluffy, fuzzy, starchy, crisp, corrugated, rippled, abrasive, cracked.
Similes: rough as sandpaper, soft as a jellyfish, moist as a puddle.
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Write a poem bringing the hotel room or autumn forest to life using all five senses. Write a poem that is at least 15 lines long.
Ideas to get you started:
Maybe you ordered room service: what does your dinner smell like?
What’s the weather like outside?
What noises are your feet making as you walk through the woods?
You stop to touch a prickly bush, but it burns your hand!
Ideas to get you started:
Did you include
all 5 senses?
SELF-CHECK: Did you
include
stanzas
?
Did you include alliteratio
n?
Did you
include
personifi
c-ation?