Imagery Using Sensory Detail

Imagery zAn image is language that describes something that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled. zImagery is used in literature to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience. z Sensory Detail : are ways of describing things using the 5 senses.

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.