Imagery and Sensory Details

Write in Table of Contents

Copy: What is Imagery?

Imagery is the use of vivid descriptions to create pictures

inside the reader’s mind.

Copy: What are Sensory Details?

Descriptive words that appeal (attract or influence) to the 5 senses to create “word pictures” in the reader’s mind.They help the story come alive!!

Copy: What are the five senses?

1.Hearing2.Sight3.Touch4.Taste5.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?

As stinky as a dirty diaper. He reminded her of her grandfather, a scent of peppermint and tobacco.

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?

The bright green leaf glistened in the sunlight.The students at El Cajon Valley High School shined in the hall with their bright red and blue school colors!

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. He was tied tightly, and the rough bark gouged his back. It was as soft as rabbit’s fur. The biscuit was as hard as a rock.

What kind of examples of sensory details are in this sentence?

When a piece was fired, a red

streak as round as a log flashed

low in the heavens, like a

monstrous bolt of lightning.

HomeworkDescribe the street where you live using imagery.

You must have 5-8 sentences with sensory

details.

Find examples of imagery from pages 49-62

Hearing Sight Touch Taste Smell

Exit Ticket – Pick One

Option 1: Something that I understand about imagery is ________________.

Option 2: The author, Stephen Crane, used imagery to ________.

Option 3: The imagery of the Civil War helped me to understand __________.