1. Sensory Language
Showing vs. Telling

2. Sensory Language Notes
Sight
Sound
Smell
Taste
Touch

3. Example 1 From Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings:
I looked around the room that I had never in my wildest fantasies imagined I would see. Browned photographs leered or threatened from the walls and the white, freshly done curtains pushed against themselves and against the wind.

4. Example 2 From Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings:
They were flat round wafers, slightly browned on the edges and butter-yellow in the center.
WHY DO WE USE SENSORY LANGUAGE?

5. Sensory Language
is the use of details from the five senses to add color and depth to writing.
It helps readers visualize the scene a writer is setting.

6. flash bright sharp clear light dark large blue
Visual Imagery
Language that helps the reader “see”
Example Words
flash bright sharp clear light dark large blue

7. Auditory Images
Language used to help the reader “hear” what is taking place
Example Words
scream shout tone whisper ring utter nasal squeal quiet

8. Images of Smell Examples pungent fragrant sweet
Language that evokes smell for readers
Examples
pungent fragrant sweet
dank rich aroma stinky musty rotten odor foul
*Use of similes and metaphors help strengthen images of smell

9. Images of Taste Example Words
sweet sour salty bitter fresh juicy bland burnt zesty tangy

10. Images of Touch Example Words
This is language that can help the reader understand touch, temperature, movement, and feelings
Example Words
warm grasp sharp cold rugged joyful fuzzy hard

11. --highlight all the sensory words -- 3 sentences each.
Activity: Using Sensory Language
Some of the most famous photographs that changed the world are about to follow.
Your task is to use sensory language to describe what is taking place. You must do the following:
--highlight all the sensory words
-- 3 sentences each.

12. Example: The Kissing Sailor
Her white shoe lifts off the black asphalt softly as her knee bends towards him. People cheer in the street all around them as they stream out of brick store and office buildings as the news broadcast screams down the boulevard, “Victory! Victory!”
Alfred Eisenstaedt 1945

13. FLOWER POWER
Bernie Boston

14. Raising the Second Flag at Iwo Jima Joe Rosenthal Feb. 23, 1945

15. 1961 Hans Conrad Schumann jumping into West Berlin by Peter Leibing

16. Your Homework
Find an Image (internet, magazine, book) and write a 4 sentence description of the photo using Sensory Language. Be sure to include the image and underline all of the Sensory Language that you use.
DUE TUESDAY