Sensory Language

What are the 5 senses?

Sight Sound Taste Touch Smell

Writers use language to create a picture in the mind of the reader One way a writer can do this is by writing about things using his or her senses. When you hear these descriptions, they help to paint a picture in your mind.

Using Your Senses! Writers write about things they might see, hear, feel, smell or taste to help make the story seem more real.

Sensory language Definition: language that uses words from the 5 senses.

Sight Words that make your reader see what you see. Talk about colors, movement, shapes, and appearance. Examples: brick aqua red teal Rushing fast slow bouncy pointy straight square pretty dull ugly

Sound Words that make your reader hear what you hear. Talk about loudness, softness, and speech. Examples: booming, blaring, noisy, screeching, crying, whispering, crackling, sizzling

Touch Words that make your reader touch what you touch. Tactile feeling and emotional feeling are closely connected. Examples: bumpy    cold    cool    crisp    damp    dry    dull    elastic    fleshy    fragile    furry    fuzzy    gritty    hairy    icy  

Taste Words that make your reader taste what you taste. Examples: bitter    bittersweet    bland    burnt    buttery    cheesy    crisp    fishy    fruity

Smell Words that make your reader smell what you smell. Examples: earthy fishy fragrant fresh rotten savory scented sharp sickly sour spicy Smell in particularly is powerful and can easily trigger early memories.

If this was the setting of your story… what might you say using your senses?