Imagery Using Sensory Detail
Imagery zAn image is language that describes something that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled. zThe images in a literary work are referred to, when considered together, as the work’s imagery.
Sight z The sun’s beams shimmered and danced on the ocean’s gentle waves.
Smell z The fragrant roses drifted through the room like elusive ghosts.
Sound z Although they could not see outside the cabin, they could hear the eerie tapping, tapping, tapping, of his knife upon their door.
Taste z The cheesecake’s exquisite flavor traveled from his tongue to his spine.
Touch z The icy breeze gently brushed against the hair on her neck, and goose-bumps shortly followed.
Imagery z What is the most beautiful thing in the world?
Imagery z Deals with the five senses z How is the author using sensory words to describe something? z By reading what do you feel, taste, smell, hear, see?
Imagery z Identify which sensory category each word fits in: z Acrid, moist, sweet, hairy, warm, thick, slimy, sloppy, boiling, thudding, stony, greasy, blaring
Imagery z Practice using imagery to describe the pictures. z One description per picture. z You must use complete sentences. z You must use a simile or metaphor for two of the examples.
Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” z Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” z As you listen to the recoding draw any images that come to mind. z After, you must explain your drawing to the class. z For example: “The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present” yI would draw water with fire in it or fire flowing like water yhttp:// OOPsgvC94http:// OOPsgvC94
Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” z What kind of discourse was this? yNarration yDescription yExposition yPersuasion
Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” z Let’s evaluate his sermon by determining: ySpeaker yAudience yOccasion yMeans of Persuasion xEthos, Logos, Pathos
Parody z e.com/watch?v=sf sdEosycy4 e.com/watch?v=sf sdEosycy4 z e.com/watch?v=zH zN80iC59I e.com/watch?v=zH zN80iC59I
Parody z An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. z You are to create a parody of Jonathan Edward’s sermon “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” yMust be school appropriate yMust address the message of the original sermon